Marriage is a contract that requires intentional, active work because social factors and life changes make it inherently difficult to sustain without conscious effort.

“So, how would you think that a contract we sign with the government about our relationship is going to prevent it from eroding or having any of the like natural things that happen to our bodies, to our lives, to every other relationship we have?”

Marrying after the age of 32 statistically increases the risk of divorce because individuals become more rigid and carry more negative emotional baggage from past relationships.

“However, after 32 years old, um every year increases your chance of divorce by 5%.”

Divorce is a traumatic event for children that significantly damages their ability to lead a conventional, happy life.

“A friend of mine said recently, and he said this, and this is this is aggressive, and you know, people are going to get angry, but when you are a child of divorce, it really extinguishes the hope that you're really ever going to have a normal, and I don't want to use the word normal, but a conventio”