Marriage by the Numbers
The following data is taken form the book “The 7 Stages of Marriage”, by Sari Harrar & Rita DeMaria, Ph.d.:
Should you stay — or should you go? Let these statistics from various national surveys help you decide.
- Cost of the average wedding: $20,000
- Cost of the average divorce $20,000
- First marriages that end in divorce: nearly 50%
- Second marriages that end in divorce: 67%
- Third marriages that end in divorce: 74%
- Percent of miserable couples who stayed together and felt happier 5 years later: 86%
- Number who were very happy 10 years later: 80%
- Spouses who say their sex lives are better married: 73%
- Relative increase in wealth for married couples versus single or divorced people: 85%
- Longevity bonus for married men over unmarried men: 1.7 years
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