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James Sexton

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The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

from me.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

So they're all tied to love.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

So do I believe in love?

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

I believe in love more than most people probably because

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

Again, you can focus on the statistic that everyone asks me about, which is what's the divorce rate?

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

Roughly 56% of marriages end in divorce.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

That's an insane number, by the way.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

Put it in perspective, Toyota in the 90s had a model vehicle that 0.0001%

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

had problems with the brake line, they recalled all of that model of vehicles, because that was an unacceptable risk, less than 1% unacceptable risk.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

56%, if I said there's a 56% chance when we walk out of this room, you get hit in the head with a bowling ball.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

You would stay in this room or you would put on a helmet, but we still get married.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

And by the way, that's how many catastrophically fail in divorce.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

How many stay together miserable for the kids because they don't want to give up half their stuff?

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

10% being nice, 20%.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

Now we got a technology fail 76% of the time.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

76% of the time.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

There's a 76%, that's insane, okay?

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

And yet, that's not the number that's interesting to me.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

The number that's interesting to me is that 86% of people who get divorced are remarried within five years.

The Genius Life
545: America’s Top Divorce Lawyer on the Real Reason Couples Fall Apart | James Sexton

Wow.