James Sexton
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5,249 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5 May
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Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I think if you wanted to talk to
someone about how to take good care of your car, you wouldn't talk to the person at the car dealership who sells brand new cars and only deals with brand new cars.
I think talking to a wedding planner about how do I make my marriage and the happiness and contentment within it last would probably be the last person to speak to.
If I was looking to find information about how to keep my car in its best mechanical shape, I would talk to a car mechanic.
Because all they do is see cars that break down all day.
And they see where do systems start to fail?
What are the parts that there's strain on?
And I think as a divorce lawyer for over 25 years, I've seen all the permutations of ways that people lose something that they never meant to lose.
I mean, I think divorce is an incredibly performative moment in our culture.
It's something you can't pretend you meant to do.
Like, everyone who got married gets married with the hope, at least, or intention of staying together.
And yet, over 50% of marriages end in divorce.
no i mean divorce was not uh uh culturally as acceptable of a thing so i think there's a huge piece of of that um but yeah no it generally the the divorce rate has been above 50 since the 1990s and it sometimes goes up as high as 56 it sometimes goes as low as 53 but it hasn't been below 50 in quite a long time
That is correct, yes.
And although the statistic for first marriages is somewhere in the area of 48%, so it's not far from 50%.
And what I would say in response to that, because I think people say that in a way to sort of assuage the concern of, well, it's not quite as bad.
I mean, first of all, Toyota had a car that the brake line failed 0.0001% of the time, and they spent billions of dollars recalling all of those cars because that was considered an irrationally high risk.
Even if it was 48%, 48% is a gigantic number.
If I said there's a 48% chance when you walk out of here, you're going to get hit in the head with a bowling ball, you'd either stay inside or wear a helmet.
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