In a recent survey,
- 96% of Americans express a personal desire for marriage.
- 3/4 of Americans believe marriage is a life long commitment.
Yet it is shocking to know that;
- 50% of first marriages ended in divorce and
- 60% of remarriages end in divorce.
Stats by American Center for Disease Control's National Vital
Top Reasons For Divorce
Below the usual top reasons for divorce. These are the common reasons why people to think about or want to get a divorce:
- Couple has conflicting personal beliefs
- Couple’s marital satisfaction decreases
- Desertion
- Adultery
- Cruel treatment
- Bigamy
- Imprisonment
- Spousal Indignities
- Institutionalization
- Irretrievable Breakdown of some kind
Solid divorce reasons for wanting or going through a divorce usually come from some sort of occurrence, behavioral pattern, and/or change in the viewpoint of the marriage itself.
Are You thingking about getting a divorce?
When deciding whether or not to get a divorce because there may be financial considerations to think of, you should first focus on defining your own emotional or 'personal' divorce reasons, regardless of what the local governing body says.
- If you ask 100 people how they define viable reasons for wanting a divorce, you'll most likely get 100 different answers because they'll answer you from their perspective, not yours. Sure, there may be similarities to the way you feel in some of those answers about 'real' divorce reasons, you may even agree with some. But, the real answers to this question can only come from you. You have to figure out what reason or reasons would be viable in your mind in order to actually go through your decision about getting a divorce or staying married.
- Some reasons that people give for getting a divorce, or wanting a divorce, are purely selfish and have no substance. An example of a selfish reason for wanting a divorce that has no substance is not liking the fact that your spouse has constant unfounded jealousy. There is a deeper problem that exists here, and in the case of this example, it could be that the spouse who constantly feels jealousy has a confidence problem or some sort of 'fear of loss'. Whatever the case, the divorce reason in this example clearly isn't viable and should relatively easy to fix.
Often times when people give 'surface' or flimsy reasons for wanting a divorce, they really have much deeper feelings about something and they're just using the shallow divorce reason as an avoidance of some kind. Or, they give these 'foundation-less' reasons for wanting a divorce because they actually aren't aware that there are other deeper rooted reasons that are the cause of the way they feel now.
In order to really make a smart decision,
you should first list the reasons that you have for wanting a divorce, then examine those divorce reasons for true viability. Then come back to it that list in a day or so. Chances are you will be able to scratch a few of those reasons for wanting a divorce off the list because they were identified purely from an emotional viewpoint rather than logic.
If you are thinking about getting a divorce, and haven't clearly identified what reasons you have for feeling the way you do, you'll be doing yourself a 'dis-service' if you act without carefully examining the viability each designated divorce reason.
Everyone has their own top reasons for divorce, make sure that you are certain that your reasons are truthfully viable to you before you act on them. Good luck.