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Ø     No marriage is perfect.  Using a large sample for research purposes, researchers learned that 86 percent of people who were unhappily married in the late 1980s, but stayed with the marriage, indicated that, when interviewed five years later,  they were happier. In fact 3/5 of those who were previously unhappy considered their marriages as either "very happy" or "quite happy."[1]

 

 

Ø     A marriage counsellor, after counselling hundreds of couples who were on the path to divorce, raised the idea of “self-talk” as one potential cause of divorce.  This pattern of negative self talk, he contends, is a barrier to a couple’s happiness, much more than a lack of open communication is. 

 

Self talk is the equivalent of an individual’s thoughts.  He said:

 


[1] David Popenoe, the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J, 2002.



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