Paul C. Brunson
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You know, I think most of us would agree that your spouse could cheat without touching anybody's genitals or having anybody touch theirs.
Is that the metric?
That's the stat that I, that when I throw that out, people swallow their teeth.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Yeah, that 56% of marriages end in divorce.
That roughly 10 to 20% more, you're estimating, are unhappy but stay together for the kids.
But 86% of people are remarried within five years of their divorce.
Within five years?
Within five years.
So these are people that catastrophically failed at marriage.
Yes.
And 86% are remarried within five years.
Higher?
Yeah, I would imagine.
But the marriage satisfaction rate is higher.
Is it?
Yes.
So the ones who... So I think that teaches me, right?
And again, we have to extrapolate lessons from the data.
Yes.