Marrying someone outside your age group can be a financial risk.
The Atlantic, which supplies news anywhere from politics to your own life, published an article entitled “For a Lasting Marriage, Try Marrying Someone Your Own Age,” showing how couples who married within their own age group were more likely to stay together, than couples who married with a large age gap between them.
The Atlantic, which supplies news anywhere from politics to your own life, published an article entitled “For a Lasting Marriage, Try Marrying Someone Your Own Age,” showing how couples who married within their own age group were more likely to stay together, than couples who married with a large age gap between them.
SOURCE: http://www.justjared.com/
Megan Garber, at the Atlantic, uses the idea that marriage is not only based on “the having of money, the having of children, and the length of time a couple spends dating before they tie the knot,” but also about the age difference that is between the couple. She argues that married couples who have less of an age gap between them are less likely to get divorced. She uses a chart to depict that people who have a 1 year difference between them are only 1% likely to get divorced. With a 10 year age gap, the couple is 39% more likely to get divorced, and with a 30 year age gap, they are 172% more likely to get divorced.
I disagree with Garber’s take on age and marriage, because there are many differing factors that can lead to a divorce: infidelity, lack of lust, religious difference, etc. I do not think age has much to do with a divorce.
People date to get married. You want to experience time with that person with the idea in the back of your head that you might fall in love and want to get married. Age, however, cannot be a factor, because before you have even started dating, it is common to ask “how old are you?”. I believe maturity levels are a large factor in a marriage, because your age does not necessarily reflect your maturity levels.
Garber also does make the argument that age is NOT the only factor, but it is “above all, about 50-50 partnership” but differences in age means differences in life experience. On this point in her article, I do agree with Garber, because this is a fact that everyone knows. No matter what the age difference is, one person will always feel like they are not good enough for the other, because one is either more experienced, more mature, or have a different life path they are trying to take. Age is not the only issue, and it is not a big one either. But it is rather a small part of a relationship that both partners must be comfortable with in order to have a stable relationship, and be able to make the right decisions, whether that means financially, or personally.
FUTURE RESEARCH: Does comfortability and norms of society cause people to make certain decisions in a relationship?
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