re: How many of us are products of a divorced family?

My parents married 55 years. My spouse's parents also married 50+ years.

I absolutely thought about his family and home life before committing to marriage because I wanted someone who was raised with the same values as I. I was never attracted to the 'bad boy' archetype. The strategy seems to be working well, we have been together 33 years. It has NOT been easy. And we've had to level up as humans many times since. But I will say in those hard times, just knowing how important stability is to the family provided enough incentive to make us change course. If either of us saw divorce as an OUT, We wouldn't have made it past year 1.