Marriage is indeed a partnership of heart and mind where you are supposed to share everything. In order to keep this partnership going a lot of effort is involved both physically and emotionally. This is not a one time investment from where you can reap your profits life long; rather it is like trading where the profits accumulate from every day’s earnings. The answer to what is marriage is different among different age groups. For teenagers who have pink shaded glasses marriage is an ideal destination where everything can be as you would want it. For young people, marriage is a struggle to shape their future by juggling their career and their marital life; for older people marriage is a life time commitment where each person contributes all they can for the other persons betterment.

Can Marriage turns to Divorce ? Often the marriage ends in divorce or separation. How does a divorcee look at marriage after they go through a broken relationship? Most of the people who divorce are open to find another life partner. They believe that mistakes can happen and compatibility is not always a logical fall out from a good chemistry. Some people come out from divorce so bitter and disappointed that they would not want to consider getting into another relationship. In most cases, divorcees are more circumspect about a second marriage but open for close emotional and physical relationships.

However, if cohabitation isn’t a good answer to stem the tide of divorce, then what is? Young explained, “There is good news that can be gleaned from some of these studies. They have found that even though cohabiting doesn’t appear to reduce the divorce rate, there are other variables that come into play regarding divorce, and the insights are encouraging.”

These studies have found that if you are educated (have had some college), with a decent income, came from a non-divorced family, are religious, were married after age 25 and didn’t have children for at least 7 months after you’re marriage, your chances for divorce are slim.

Even if you don’t have all of these factors in your marriage, each factor reduces the chance of divorce rearing its ugly head in your relationship.

Planning For A Lifetime Of Marriage

Armed with this knowledge, young adults can pattern their life goals after tangible standards that will help their chances of having a lasting marriage.

The message is clear, stay in school, prepare to work in a field that pays a decent wage, wait until your 25 to marry and don’t have children out of wedlock.

When asked if these “standards” are achievable, Young explained, “Theses are lofty goals, yet all are achievable regardless of whether you come from a family that has experienced divorce or not.”

There’s Still Hope

So is there hope for baby Suri to grow up in a traditional family environment? Is there hope that Tom and Katie will not only marry but also stay together?

Young vehemently stated, “There’s always hope! We choose our destiny by our daily actions, and the wonderful thing about that knowledge is if we don’t like our direction, we can change our actions.”

Young has posed this question to our readers, “Will you choose to improve your chances and the chances of your children to have a long-term marriage relationship?”

Our reply is, There’s always that hope, as long as we are willing to educate our youth and make a stand for traditional, happy marriages.