WASHINGTON – University of Utah researcher Nicholas Wolfinger announcedthat he had found the optimal age range for a lasting marriage, afterlooking at data published by the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)from 2006-2010.*The answer you want to know*
Wolfinger, an adjunct professor of sociology at the university, claimedthat the likelihood of divorce was lowest when a couple married between theages of 28 and 32. “The odds of divorce decline as you age from yourteenage years through your late twenties and early thirties,” Wolfingerwrote.
And Marshall believes that “I think the best age to get married is whenyou’re both ready and want to do it.”
“Marriage is a wonderful institution. Because living together is a privatearrangement, whereas getting married is a public one: it brings yourpartner into your family, and provides them with more loving support.
“It also makes you think twice before you separate, and that’s generally agood thing. We choose people for a reason, and that reason is normallygrowth. And growth involves conflict, which we’re often terrified of, butactually it’s really good for us.”
He suggests that couples often get caught up in the cliché of “I love you,but I’m not in love with you”, because they suppress their differences.*Social media – a poison for relationships?*
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Marshall feels social media is a “complete and utter disaster” for modernrelationships.
He says 10 years ago, no one he spoke with complained about how theirpartner was “always on their phone” or “always on Facebook”.
Now, such statements are an order of the day, he added.
