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A study by Robert and Jeanette Lauer, reported in the Journal of Family Issues, conducted on 40 sets of spouses married for at least 50 years, concluded that the long-term married couples received high scores on the Lock-Wallace marital satisfaction test and were closely aligned on how their marriages were doing. [1]
While divorce rates in the U.S. may be declining a new trend is emerging in how people approach long-term relationships: ... of divorces in the U.S. — 36% — occurred in people over 50 ...
Grey divorce [1] is the demographic trend of an increasing divorce rate for older ("grey-haired") couples in long-lasting marriages, a term typically used for people over 50. Those who divorce may be called silver splitters . [ 2 ]
Specifically, the couples who stayed married turned toward one another about 86% of the time, whereas couples that divorced only turned to one another about 33% of the time.
And 50% of adults ages 65 and older had remarried, compared to just 34% in 1960. ... “Later-in-life marriages often succeed because people this age have gotten a lot out of their systems ...
A Pew study in 2005 which examined Internet users in long-term relationships including marriage, found that many met by contacts at work or at school. [124] In a twelve-month period, the average number of assignations that a single person will have is four. [123] When courting, 43% of people 'google' potential partners ahead of time. [125]
For long-term marriages, this can be significant because they end up owning 50% of their retirement and residential property even though they didn’t work and didn’t have a salary.”
However, the term has grown to also have strong negative connotations of a marriage that is of short duration and quickly ends in separation or divorce. [1] The term developed the negative connotations fairly early; by the 1930s, a "Hollywood marriage" was a marriage both glamorous and short-lived. [2] [3]