Age range of friend group and how many people/couples are/have been divorced?

Divorced after 28 years

More common than you think

My friend group ranges from 28-42 most of us married 9-20 years. Have one going through divorce right now and I think a second about to come on any day now. Of the total group most have been divorced and remarried. Us and one other are the only ones left. Puts us at 75% divorced. And we are "good church folk"

50%

Militaryyyyy

In 30's and early 40's, 2 have been divorced. One guy converted to Catholicism and got his first 2 annulled before finding true love with wife #3.

I'm not doing the math to figure out percentages. Let's say I have four or five friends.

About 10%

Only one divorced friend. Age range mid-30s. He's also the only one that got married in his early 20's. The rest waited until they finished grad/professional school, had careers, and were comfortable with themselves as adults to get married. Seems to working out ok for all of them.

John Francis Donaghy said:

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Only one divorced friend. Age range mid-30s. He's also the only one that got married in his early 20's. The rest waited until they finished grad/professional school, had careers, and were comfortable with themselves as adults to get married. Seems to working out ok for all of them.

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I married in my early 20s before my spouse's grad school. We are happily married with a 15 month old.

Seven said:

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Age range of friend group and how many people/couples are/have been divorced?

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23 to 47
It's about a 50/50 split with divorced vs. not divorced.

With coworkers it's a much higher percentage but they're another 15 years older on average. I used to be on domestic travel for a good 8 months out of the year and am the only one out of the group to remain married.

2/3 of my family are divorced.

35 to 45, 2 divorced a 3rd highly likely, about 20%

champagnepapi said:

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John Francis Donaghy said:

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Only one divorced friend. Age range mid-30s. He's also the only one that got married in his early 20's. The rest waited until they finished grad/professional school, had careers, and were comfortable with themselves as adults to get married. Seems to working out ok for all of them.

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I married in my early 20s before my spouse's grad school. We are happily married with a 15 month old.

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For now. Also misery loves company.

This thread is kinda depressing.

I would say about 40-50% of my friends have been through a divorce, some more than once.

What if you know lots of people with baby Momma's because Mexico?

Pam Poovey said:

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This is why marriage licenses need a renewal option every 5 years.

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This would be awesome. So many stressed out couples wondering what their spouse is going to do now that their 5 years is coming up.

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Only one divorced friend. Age range mid-30s. He's also the only one that got married in his early 20's.

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Yeah, my friend with the 2 ex-wives was also the first in our group to get married. No question he tried to get her preggers on purpose so she'd marry him and she was never ready for it. He's the guy who's always on his high horse when married, giving out advice and criticism and asking when you're gonna get married or have kids. Then he's rock bottom depressed when she leaves him. Then he's right back on the high horse when talks another girl into marrying him. I'm wondering how long until wife #3 repeats the cycle.

Only one. He then immediately knocked up the maid of honor from the first wedding and then married a third chick a couple months after that baby was born.

I think wedding party is an interesting way to look at this... Our wedding party had 8 people who were alreadyor went on to get married. 2 are divorced, so not a terrible rate from that perspective.

Excluding the "married less than a year out of college" types? Almost none

Including the married less than a year out of school? Close to 70%

found out a few weeks ago a HS friend of mine split from her husband. none of my immediate college friends are divorced of which there are like 11 couples.

i am thinking of about 15 couples that are friends from different areas of our lives and only one are divorced. 30s-low 40s

Our friend group consists of 8 other couples that we hang out with regularly (age range 50-60), plus their kids and some others semi-regularly. Percentage that are or have been divorced- 0.0

One couple may be on the verge of divorce but haven't done anything yet.

40%

2 close friends had their divorces. Waited until late 20s but didn't last 2 years.

GF parents had a divorce

GF divorced her husband 3 years ago.

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But I am Hindu.


Sometimes i feel like divorcing my wife as she does not appreciate me and what i do for her.

champagnepapi said:

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John Francis Donaghy said:

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Only one divorced friend. Age range mid-30s. He's also the only one that got married in his early 20's. The rest waited until they finished grad/professional school, had careers, and were comfortable with themselves as adults to get married. Seems to working out ok for all of them.

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I married in my early 20s before my spouse's grad school. We are happily married with a 15 month old.

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I'm sure you guys are fine but I am pretty confident that the most changing a person does is during their 20's.
It's during this 10 year window where people really understand who they are as an individual. I feel like at age 35 i'm nothing like the man I was at age 25.

Only 1 so far. His wife cheated on him after he paid of her school loans/car/etc. About a year into the marriage