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Nov 2013
9:16am, 14 Nov 2013
9,553 posts
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McGoohan
Wife's family:
Parents - married 50+ years
sis 1 - married 15ish years, rocky
sis 2 - married 18ish years, rockier
bro - married 25 years, seems pretty stable
My family
Parents - married 45 years (until Dad's death)
sis 1 - divorced after 17 years
sis 2 - married, 15 years
Based on that evidence and if repeated across the UK, I calculate that David Cameron would be re-elected but would divorce soon after, only to marry Nick Clegg.
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Nov 2013
9:17am, 14 Nov 2013
7,046 posts
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Joopsy
I moved in with my then girlfriend in April 96, four months later she asked me to marry her! We were both mid twenties at the time and although we hadn't been together as a couple for long I had known her since I was 13!
Same as RWR, neither of us have any history of divorce in our immediate families and I do appreciate that makes us fairly unique in these times.
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Nov 2013
9:22am, 14 Nov 2013
11,384 posts
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Naomi P
My grandparents separated when they were 65, back in 1993, after 40ish years of marriage. That was quite unusual.
My own parents dragged their separation out for years and I bloody wish they'd ripped the plaster off in one go. Happily they get on really well now, better than they ever did when they were together. It did put me off getting hitched for a while, but I realised that if you make a considered choice with your head as well as your heart then it doesn't have to.
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Nov 2013
9:23am, 14 Nov 2013
11,805 posts
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runner duck
we've been married 20 years. i couldn't have chosen better. not sure he thinks the same 
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Nov 2013
9:23am, 14 Nov 2013
3,222 posts
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Wobbling
My Mum is twice divorced. Her first husband is three-times divorced and her second husband is now on his third marriage. Her current partner has only been divorced twice. Mum made divorce law by being only the second person allowed to divorce within 2 years of marriage and the first one with a child (me).
MrW's family...no divorces, other than his SiL who was married before she got hitched to MrW's brother.
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Nov 2013
9:25am, 14 Nov 2013
3,223 posts
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Wobbling
Sorry, I did my Mum's partner a disservice, he's only been married and divorced once.
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Nov 2013
9:30am, 14 Nov 2013
9,376 posts
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GimmeMedals
There was no divorce in my famly until me. Parents and both sisters have been married once and it's worked for all of them. That's what I expected for me until my ex revealed the true level of his alcoholism and how very destructive it was to us both. I've been with husband number 2 for 11 years and we  each other loads
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Nov 2013
9:37am, 14 Nov 2013
26,245 posts
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JenL
"That's the secret really. Ignore all the advice you're given and do your own thing together as it were..."
Completely agree, Fellrunning. Our marriage wasn't given much hope of success either, for no better reasons than ignorance, prejudice and the fact that our families didn't "know" each other (that sounds very grandly Victorian but all it had in common with the Victorians was its narrow-mindedness).
Wobbling - some, okay perhaps even most, of it has been "awesome"
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Nov 2013
9:41am, 14 Nov 2013
9,554 posts
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McGoohan
In Norfolk families quite often know each other prior to marriage
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Nov 2013
10:01am, 14 Nov 2013
1,000 posts
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Fellrunning
"That" - as they say - was one of the problems. Lincolnshire though, not Norfolk
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