re: why does divorce cost so much?

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well except happily married people, I mean the divorce rate is already 50% which tells me that marriage isn't great to begin with

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The divorce rate isn't 50%, btw. The methodology is flawed. The 50% number comes from taking all marriages performed in a single year and comparing them to all divorces in that same year, without regard to when the marriages occurred. It is a complete distortion. Also, another interesting fact about the divorce rate is if you exclude divorces by people who have already had one divorce (so-called serial divorcers) the actual rate of divorce drops to around 6-10%. Which means that some partners account for a disproportional amount of divorces, aka the jerk effect.