GETTING MARRIED IN YOUR 30'S INCREASES LIKELIHOOD OF DIVORCE

(July, 2015) A new study out of the University of Utah verifies that people who get married before the age of 20 will probably get divorced. The rate of divorce lessens with couples in their 20’s. But the study also found this: the risk of divorce starts rising again when the newlyweds are in their early 30s. In sociologist Nicholas Wolfinger’s stats, divorce rates steadily drop through the 20s and into the 30s – Vox sees a “sweet spot” for those getting married at ages 27 to 29 – but then it hits a tipping point at age 32. From then on, the risk of divorce starts ticking upward about 5 percent a year. Wolfinger says, “Those who tie the knot after their early thirties are now more likely to divorce than those who marry in their late twenties.” He floats some theories, including one that people who wait until their late 30s or beyond to wed “face a pool of potential spouses that has been winnowed down to exclude the individuals most predisposed to succeed at matrimony.”
* Or, in layman’s terms, losers.
* Also, the older you get, the less you feel like putting up with someone else’s crap.
* To keep this from happening to you, lie about your age.
* “He floats some theories”? Try “He shovels some theories …” Or how about “He slings some theories …”?
* Let’s face it: The likelihood of divorce really goes up if you just get married.