More than 90 percent of people marry by the age of 50. However, according to the American Psychological Association, between 40 and 50 percent of those married couples end up divorcing.
Within the last year, though, the pandemic is said to have brought married couples closer. According to the American Family Survey, 58 percent of Americans say the pandemic has made them appreciate their spouse more than they ever had in the past. Divorce numbers have actually decreased.
Have you ever gone through a divorce? Sorry to remind you of it, but please tell us in the poll below. Thanks!
Young and stupid and trying to keep my family together I married and divorced the first wife twice. Thinking she had changed, people don’t change any more than a leopard can change its spots. Since that time I lost my second wife to lung cancer after 41 years, and now 5 years into my last marriage with a wonderful lady. We celebrated our 5th anniversary on the 8th and looking forward to 20 more, we’ll be at the century mark by then, if we make it that far then I’ll be looking forward to the golden anniversary.
My first wife was “friendly” while I was at work. My second wife was an “alien” (she is from Spain) and the two cultures mixed like oil and water. However, she did one thing I thank her for every day. Not with the ultimate outcome in mind, she introduced me to my third wife, my bride of 33 years.
It’s amazing how women love camping, until they’re married when they no longer like it
51 years and still going strong.
53 years, 4 children, 10 grand children. When home, I go to my shop, my wife loves to cook and bake stuff for the grand children. We keep our distance, we have used up every word in the dictionary and haven’t killed each other. Happy wife, Happy life.
Oh yes! I would be a millionaire if not for divorce. Mindless battles and greed often fueled by the MIL.
Boy, I can hear the keyboards clicking on this one! Both of us are second timers with similar stories. I was first married for not quite four painful years, but was blessed with two wonderful children. This time we’ve been together for twenty-one years. I think it will be forever, because I found someone who doesn’t need anyone, including me, to be happy. For example. First wife ‘buy me that designer purse and make me happy”. Second wife ‘oh look a hummingbird, isn’t that sweet”. Together for over twenty years, seventy-plus years old, and still honeymooning, and I mean that every sense. Yep. She is heaven sent.
It will be 45 years for us in October. But the first 30 he was work travelling so only home maybe 4 out of 7 days. Now in retirement we are getting to know each other again. Enjoying the grandchildren. It has not been easy, but worth it and now we are living our best life.
Both have gone down that path. Then we found each other and three children, eight grand children and one Great grand son later we have been joined together in good times and bad for almost 45 years! Fifteen of them in an RV.
Best times of my life have been with her!
51-years and still going strong (53-years together if you count high school)!
We will celebrate 50 years December 24th. Wow! What a Christmas gift!
50 years next month with second wife wouldn’t trade her for anyone else.
Happy to report that the gorgeous young woman who married me in 1969 is still with me, and that we’re going strong. Thereby proving my life-long motto that “it’s far better to be lucky than good”…
It will be 44 years this August for us with 2 sons and 5 beautiful granddaughters. We will be starting our full-time RV lifestyle in September! I just retired and hubby will in August. We are looking forward to this new adventure together!
married at age 20, divorced after 23 years, remarried now for 39 years. yeah im old.
Married first time for 17 yrs. Had two children. Been married the second time for going on 33 yrs. We have 7 children between us. He has 4, I have 2 and we have 1.k
Great to see all the long marriage comments even if it wasn’t the first marriage. I’m on my third and last!!
Married 51 August 22, she is the LOVE of my life and best friend.
Divorced after 20 years, seems all we had in common were the children. Then married for 2 1/2 years…mistake! Just thought about this, all the personal information I’ve put forth on RVTravel polls, they must have quite the dossier built up on me..LOL !
Only whatever info you provided in the comments, Sink. We don’t know who votes in the polls. But who has time to go back through the 113,000+ comments we’re received? Your info is safe with us, Sink. 😉 Have a great day! 😀 —Diane
Pretty sure YOU could search past comments by poster, but it would be fun if we could… several regulars i’d love to highlight/ review…
Yep, I could easily sort by commenter. But, like I said, who has the time? I can barely keep up with the current comments coming in all day long and still do my “real” work. 🙄 Have a good night, Wolfe. 😀 –Diane
About the very previous comments, and not really about divorce, BUT I have often thought that with the information and comments you have received over time, as you being journalists and surveyors of the human condition, if you could hand your information to a sociologist, It would be interesting to see attitudes and how they have varied over time – along with a whole lot of different data that could be gleaned. A good thesis. (I don’t think a sentence is allowed to be this long.)
Yep, it would be interesting, KellyR. Especially if we could include all of the really horrible comments (disgusting language, very derogatory name-calling, etc.) that we’ve deleted. But that’s an interesting thought. And yes, that’s a very long sentence. Reminds me of some of our writer’s paragraph-long sentences that I have to divide up into about three sentences to make them understandable. (But you can write as long of a sentence as you want in the comments, KellyR.) 😆 Have a good night! 😀 —Diane
46 happy years, 2 great sons, two wonderful daughters-in-law, 2 grandchildren. I had to teach my city boy husband to love farming and camping, after that our marriage was perfect!
I’ve been divorced twice, widowed once and married very happily for the 4th time.
54 years to my best friend. Life couldn’t be better. 2 great kids, 5 wonderful grandchildren, two great daughters in law. I’m blessed
Almost once back many, many years ago….but we worked it out and now are coming up on our 55th anniversary.
Yes and being married to an alcoholic and through 3 rehab I threw the towel in after 10 years. Got the house, my daughter and moved on with my military career and retired. Remarried a divorced UPS driver what a gal. 32 years with challenges but what marriage doesn’t have. We have his hers and ours. We have four children from ages 40 to 26 and 4 grandchildren. I retired from the Air Force and just retired from State service waiting a year and a half for the wife to retire. Then travel, travel, travel. Kids to take what they want. Older son has a apartment were moving into as a base during the warm months on the east coast then head south or west for the cold months. But though it’s great now I wouldn’t do it again if I was to lose my partner too long to train someone else.
Divorced once, living together twice — previously for 36 years. Once the kids are out of the house the license is immaterial.
April 9, 2022, will mark 45 years and 6 children ( 3 boys, 3 girls) all with professional jobs.
Coming up on 52 years. One child, I figured out what caused that and fought her off after that!
Almost 50 years ago, best thing that ever happened to me.
48 years and still going strong. First and Last! We’ve had our up and downs but learned to work them out.
Married twice, 30 years combined. Neither license mattered to me since i was equally committed before and after paperwork. Where it did matter is when the first license cost me 20 years of income because I divorced a cheating and criminally abusive woman in a state that still automatically gives everything to the woman regardless of greater income or abuse.
Started again broke and too old to have bio-kids, but I advise every young man i know to be honest and faithful and committed but don’t even THINK of signing on the line. There is little benefit if things are good and ZERO equality if things go bad. I’m happily remarried, but its not the paperwork that powers that.
Still going strong, will hit 48 years this year. Although backing the trailer in a couple of times could have pushed us to the brink (ha).
I’ve never even gone through a marriage.