Why is the divorce rate so high? What makes a marriage healthy?

Question

Why is the divorce rate so high? What makes a marriage healthy?

Answer 1

faithfulness, dedication, and respect

Answer 2

because kids these days can't keep their pants on

Answer 3

what makes a marriage healthy is.. communication, respect, consideration, trust, honesty, faithfulness  

Answer 4

people get married for the wrong reason now days. also, some spend to much  money which causes a lot of the problems.  lack of communication and trust  is another issue.   others succumb to all the s*x adds,show and videos then get a false sense of what a marriage should be. a healthy marriage is give and take. you have to communicate and forgive.

Answer 5

Because we live in a disposable society where its easier to get a divorce than it is to be troubled with marital problems,we have lost our faith and our loyalty to instant gratification.A healthy marriage begins with communication and the willingness to forgive your wife for keeping you up all night with her goddmn snoring,jesus christ I cant believe she doesnt wake herself up

Answer 6

In our society, we have lawyers who are able to maneuver words and terms to mean things that they weren't intended for.  When you get married, you each take vows.  The question is stated:  Do you promise to love her/him in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, in good times and bad, for as long as you both shall live?  You each must have a personal code of honor that makes you keep the promise, that is a legal tendered document.  My family friend embroidered a wedding gift for us, and while it was still wrapped, made me promise to hang it in my dining room.  It says:  

Love is patient.  Love is Kind.  Love keeps no records of wrongs.

Love bears all things believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never fails.  1 Corinthians 13:7-8

When my dad saw it, he said that you should be able to put your name where love is.  And if you find that you can't, then that is an area that you know you need to work on.

Answer 7

communication, respect and effort.

Answer 8

Too many people don't apply basic logic when choosing a mate. They depend on another to provide the happiness  they lack.A happy marrage begins with simply knowing what to overlook, namely the small stuff that so many beat eachother over the heads with and it requires falling in love many many times, always with the same person.    

Answer 9

Allot of hoes and hoe hoppers . Not to much left out here to have a healthy relation with .

Answer 10

That's a lengthy answer.  It's a combination of chaotic households breeding more chaotic households, people marrying young with the lack of  knowledge of how unlikely this marriage will work, some marriages don't work out after time, the involvement of illnesses or addictions.  It's a lot of things and they can be as mild as growing apart to domestic violence.

Healthy marriages require communication and equality.  Also a realistic expectation that it isn't going to be happy all the time and bumps are normal.