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For decades they would show that the divorce rates in cultures with arranged marriages was much lower. I recall this from some anthropology classes in college.
Not sure if that’s better though. There was probably enormous family pressure not to divorce (or other consequences) so people would live in abusive or otherwise unhealthy relationships. That’s just my guess though.
Yeah, I can tell from experience. In India, the older folks almost have a taboo against divorce. It was getting better, but with the re-emergence of religious extremism, it’s probably gonna get worse.
The old college course I mentioned specifically cited India and compared divorce rates with that of the US.
It was the go-to gag of any sitcom for about 40 years that the husband and wife hated each others guts but stuck it out for “reasons”
And the guy always says something in the line of “one of these days I’m going to snap and murder you” cue laughtrack.
"For the children ’
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Really funny book about an aging serial killer who just wants to be left alone…
Too Old For This, by Samantha Downing
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Yep. And even if both the man and woman mutually agreed their relationship wasn’t working out, they would stay married on paper to avoid shame.
This is my mom.
“I’d divorce, but that’s against the god.”So switch gods, divorce, and switch back?
We got plenty of god flavors for picking.
Relevant
Sometimes husbands expired under mysterious circumstances.
The murder clearance rate in the US is around 55%. Almost half of all murders go unsolved.
It obviously varies by jurisdiction, with some being much better and some much worse. In Flint, Michigan, less than 18% of murders are solved.
I bet many more didn’t even get reported as murders in the first place. There are probably a shit load of cases from back in the day with 1950s wives poisoning their husbands or some shit that just got chalked up to heart attacks.
My wife’s grandmother casually makes jokes about the types of ways she would poison somebody and how she would get away with it.
It’s uncomfortable but she’s old and dgaf.
Stabbed in the heart.
“Let’s call that heart attack.”
That actually sounds pretty good already. I would have thought it would be lower.
Nobody gets married anymore in some societies, they don’t even care for monogamy nowadays… so I guess divorce numbers will go down? 😅🤷
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