Well, this really is kind of meaningless because all things considered, I would rather be divorced within 3 years than be unhappy and try and stick it out for 10 years like you may feel pressure to do socially of you meet through friends and family.
"In regression analyses, the only differences of statistical significance were between those who met online who were more likely to divorce in the first three years of marriage, but only when compared to those who met through family or friends or who met socially in a bar or restaurant."
The majority of divorces happen 3 years after the wedding date too. I realize that this is UK based data. I know that in the US, the average/median lengths of marriages that fail are both around 7-8 years and I didn't the UK's data set would be that different. When we consider the data points, they show that the least stable marriages come from the online daters pool, because these marriages have the worst durational based outcomes. However, a marriage that goes to crap in 3 years or less isn't as bad in practical terms as a longer lasting marriage that fails. There's less time to fucck up your life, including having kids in the marriage.
A super short marriage with no kids tends not to have too much effect on SMV. I've had some dates with short term childless divorcees. Every date that I have ever had with a childless divorcee was arranged through either a dating website (pre-swipe app era) or a swipe app.
In terms of the couples that fail after a lengthier time, there's no influence on the initial meeting method.
people point to higher divorce rates now versus 50 years ago as if somehow married couples were happier then. They weren't, they just chose to stay married and unhappy with their lives for appearances because divorce was majorly taboo then.
Divorce rates are generally meaningless statistic. All it measures are the divorces in a calendar year vs. the new marriages in a calendar year. The divorce rate has been falling in recent years because there are fewer new marriages in recent years.
The blog post below does a good job of explaining that but anyone with a solid statistical knowledge base understands that. Most readers of mainstream articles don't have the statistical knowledge to fully grasp that concept. The two links are the same article but one has non-broken links in it.
The more relevant consideration is the probability of a divorce at any point during the lifetime of a marriage. Even while the divorce rate has been falling since 2000, the probability of a marriage failing at any point during its lifetime has been increasing
I often point to the current high divorce rates as evidence of human beings not being creatures capable of, or even desirous of, absolute long-term monogamy, vastly preferring short-term monogamy and/or temporary marriages instead. Usually I refer to either the “standard” divorce rate most often...
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I often point to the current high divorce rates as evidence of human beings not being creatures capable of, or even desirous of, absolute long-term monogamy, vastly preferring short-term monogamy and/or temporary marriages instead. Usually I refer to either the “standard” divorce rate most often...
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I would argue that people who meet through school, social circle, their workplaces (quasi social circle), or bar/social (mostly stranger approaches done by men) are actually more prone to longer term relationships and marriages than interactions that begin on the swipe apps or DMs on social media platforms.
