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Originally Posted by Buff
The percentage of marriages may be close to 50% but the percentage of people who actually get divorced is much less than that. There are a tonne of people who get divorced more than once. My former boss who was divorced 4 times is a prime example.
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Yeah, I was just thinking that I read a StatsCan report recently and I'm sure that the divorce rate is much closer to 34%. Multi-divorcers skew the number higher of course.
In my opinion, you should be talking about a hypothetical pre-nup way before you ever get into a crunch time situation where you've considered marrying her.
When I brought up the idea of a pre-nup with my girlfriend (laywer, but not divorce), she basically said the same thing that another poster above said. It actually is less enforceable and applicable in fewer areas than you think.
To the original poster - my opinion - your buddy can't just pop the question and slip in a little post-proposal mention of a pre-nup. It has to be out in the clear before he makes a final move. No one on this forum is going to be able to tell him if he should do it or not - he's the only one who knows his girlfriend the best. So, definitely have a conversation first but don't go in with the attitude that it is a given.