Four Things You Can Take to Divorce

Relations experts call <x0 risk factors”. Like risk factors for heart disease or breast cancer, these traits increase a couple's chances for divorce.

Divorced parents-Divorce is the most common among children of divorced parents.

Alcohol habits do not match your husband-studies say that among couples one was drunk and the other was not, 45 to 55 percent were divorced before their 10th anniversary. In the meantime, when the two partners drank or none of the partners drank, only about 35 percent of the couples separated.

The longer you wait for marriage, the stronger your relationship will be. Recent statistics paint a somewhat more complex view of the ideal age of getting married; but dating in adolescence and early 20s still seems to increase the risk of divorce.

Good-looking partners find it harder to stay together in a marriage. Physical objectivity is linked to higher divorce rates. Physically attractive people are more vulnerable to temptation.