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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
I'm one who isn't surprised that "religious" marriages have a higher failure rate. Not to generalize, but there is a doctrine that I've heard that "couples who pray together stay together"--which strikes me as one of those magical, simple fixes for marital issues that never works in real life.
If you go into a marriage thinking "this will be easy because we share this religion thing," then you've forgotten the cardinal rule of human relationships. People change--you must work to accept and nurture the changes your partner undergoes, and understand that the terms of your relationship will evolve over time.
This is why there is no simple answer to what makes marriages work. Marriages don't work unless you're willing to work for them.
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I just wonder if the stats made any reference to a mixed religious marriage, and how they fared against pure religious marriage.
Ie: I could see a marriage between a devout Catholic and a liberal Anglican not lasting simply due to the fact that their dissenting views could cause a lot of friction in matters of family planning and child raising.
Also, another reason I could see religiously devout marriages failing is the simple fact that religious people tend to marry younger. Hell, if the Bible says you can't fornicate, and you follow that, wouldn't you want to snag someone to procreate with as fast as possible? ... and with that, haste makes waste. Most people aren't ready for marriage until their mid-late 20s.