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I have a friend who ended up getting divorced after his wife cheated on him. He is now happily remarried and expecting his first baby. He now says her cheating on him was the best thing that ever happened. Another friend's girlfriend is divorced, she got married because she got pregnant, obviously I wasn't around for that split but it was a real doozy from all accounts. I am young and one of the first to get married out of my friends my age though so I think unfortunately with divorce rates as they are someone in my circle may eventually. Although, i hope they beat the odds.
my ex-bff got married because she got pregnant. guy left her cause he felt she trapped him (she was under 25 he under 30). he even left the country! she became all bitter and mad with everyone and stopped talking to anybody that knew what had happened to her. sad stuff.
i'm 0/2 with friends staying married. i was a bridesmaid at both and neither lasted past their first year. it's really sad. sometimes i feel like i should be less excited about my wedding around them, especially since one just filed for divorce and my wedding is only a few months away.
i have one friend i like to call the serial bride. She's 26 and getting married 5/2...to guy number 4. Too young, infidelity, and...I'm not sure what to call getting married after dating for 4 days.
i have one other friend that is currently going through a divorce. His wife is a bad alcoholic, combined with a love of casinos, and she refuses to get help.
One friend divorced long before we met...she was v. young when she married an older guy. Another, whom I know b/c she is the wife (of 10 years) of a colleague though now a good friend, was married before. I think partly youth, partly also a visa issue I think.
One friend had a painful divorce a couple years ago after she found out her xh was cheating (in the most horrific way possible, i.e. actually dating several women). I actually met her through an x-bf who was friends with her xh...so it's so hard to imagine since I actually knew the xh first. She was devastated at first...she said something to me that really brought it home, "I married him completely and for my whole life." But she's been able to amazingly turn her life around, and moved to a new city a year ago.
Another friend's wife left him a few years ago. I think she was too young when they met (they married after college, but met when she was a freshman) and she hadn't dated much. Then she got stuck following his career around. I kind of understand why it happened, though it was still hard to watch and listen to him being in so much pain. He's met and is living with someone else now, but it's taken him several years.
Yet another I think is separated...she kind of stopped keeping touch with anyone after her wedding (2 years ago) so we don't know for sure. But she replied with a new address and without his name to my Save the Date email.
It's sad and difficult to watch, but I do think almost everyone (don't know about the last friend) is in a better place now. I can't really contemplate even the notion of divorce, though. It's taken me so long to meet my FI and then to decide I was ready for marriage.
Two of my groomsman are divorced. One re-married to the girl he always wanted to be with and the other one had a lot of hardship after the divorce but thankfully rebounded in the past year and is now dating someone.
It is hard, specially when you know the other person as well.
I have 3 acquaintences who are divorced in their 20s. It's sad, and I'm not close enough to any of them to bother with detais. Most of the people I know, though, stay married, even when they married young (almost all my cousins married before 20).
I like the idea of the book club, though.
I have several friends who divorced. One was due to infidelity. Come to think of it, the other couple I knew did because of the same thing. Seems to be imho a silent epidemic and this is something I firmly believe should be addressed during dating and especially the engagement period as a BOUNDARY AND DEAL BREAKER 100 PERCENT.
However, that being said, most of my friends and my family are married and DOING GREAT! My family and closest friends all know what happened and why I divorced, and I let them all know and I think it's really opened alot of people's eyes and made them think long and hard about what you could lose, the greatest aspects of your life that you could lose, and how your life will change forever (and not for the better) if you betray the one you pledged your fidelity to. I think what my x did has been a huge life lesson to many around me. Thankfully, I think it made alot of my family and friends NOT take for granted their life partner/spouse and realize the important of family and the folly of selfishness.
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A friend of mine was married on August 1, 2008 and they are already separating. It has been really difficult for her and her husband. They both have gone through a lot since they got married. They've bought a house and my friend is currently six months pregnant; they found out she was pregnant about a month after they were married. They both feel like they aren't right for each other, and they are making each other miserable. It's really difficult to see her going through this. They aren't even going to make the 1-year mark. And they were together for about four years and lived together for 2-3 of those years before they decided to get married. The hardest part is not being able to do anything to make it better. I'm just trying to listen and be there as much as I can. She's also made me swear my fiance and I will get pre-marital counseling. 
I agreed. I think if nothing else it will help us be ready for how different being married will be.
I just wish there was a way to make it all better.
See I don't "get" that thing about having lived or been together for so long and suddenly when you get married, as if a wand is waved over your head, that it goes downhill so fast. I'll keep your friend in my prayers. So sad.
You honestly have to wonder what is her H thinking or why even divorce if they've bought a home and have a child on the way? I just cannot think of a sadder thing to happen when their lives should be filled with joy right now..
One of my bridesmaids is in the midst of a nasty divorce. She'd been married for 15 years, so it's really taking it's toll both on her and on having her in the wedding :( She's not really in a place where being around happy couples is good for her.
I've had a couple of other friends get divorced in their late 20's...
I definitely don't think the cause of the divorces was that they got married young, but I will say the one common denominator for these friends was being quite young at the time of their marriages. Maybe it's just because more people get married at the ages that they were, so statistically that's what we're more likely to see right now.
And I think a book club is a great idea!
Great idea! I love the book "His Needs Her Needs" and think it's a wonderful way to go into a lifelong relationship and keep the home fires (and budoir fires too!) burning!
I keep waiting for this to happen, and it hasn't yet- luckily!! I dont mean that in a negative way but it seems EVERYONE sees their friends get married and divorced, and I haven't yet, so I'm feeling almost on edge, like "who will the first couple be?" My fiance and I have been to 14 weddings in the last two years and not one of the couples has divorced or split. I think it's awesome...!! Though I am quite sure eventually the streak will end.. sad to say..
Two girls from my circle of friends in high school have gotten divorced.
The first got married RIGHT after high school graduation, then her husband was shipped off the Iraq. They got divorced as soon as he was home (less than a year later). She's now engaged to be married (again) and has 1 kid and another on the way.
The other was married for maybe a year, and just got divorced. They were together for a really long time, something like 6 years before they got married. But it ended for whatever reason.
Have I mentioned that we graduated high school in 2003?
I have a pair of friends that just recently divorced after being married about 8 months. Their parents spent over $100k to throw this PLATINUM wedding and it lasted less than a year...so sad, and expensive!
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For friend weddings we are 0 for 2 both got divorced within the first year (well one was withing the first 3 months) but as far as family weddings go we are going strong.
Mrs Bee, I would so be a part of your book club. I have one friend who has just split from her H, but their marriage has been dead for a couple years. They were married for 20 years, hes a raging crazy alcoholic and she just had enough and kicked him out. Now she's going to lose her house, and has no idea where she's going to go. Plus she's "raising" her 2 girls, one 20 and pregnant, one 19 and ready to move w/her bf. Very sad but in her case she needs to walk away.
FI and I are going to be the first in our group of friend our age that are getting married. I'm 25, he'll be 27 next month, and the majority of our friends are from 23 to 30. We've been together the longest save for one couple who broke up for a year and are back together. Infidelity, pregnancy and naivety seem to be the top 3 reasons young couples get divorced. FI and I both were cheated on in our last relationships and have talked about it alot, cheating is an automatic deal breaker and not something to be taken lightly. I told probably 100 times before he proposed that he better think long and hard before he puts a ring on my finger, cuz I don't believe in divorce and if you cheat on me I have a lot of big men on my side 
I would be really mad if my kid got married and divorced in less than 1 yr. and I had spent 100K. I would make them pay up. It is crazy that once you marry for some people 'everything changes'...in my opinion, if you live together, everything is the same. It should be harder if you have to adjust...but whatevs.
I like the bookclub idea mr.bee.
A book club would be an awesome idea!
I am 23 and most of my friends are within a couple years of my age. Sadly, at this point all the ones that have gotten married have also gotten/are currently getting divorced. One of my FI's groomsmen dropped out of the wedding party because he's going through a particularly aweful divorce that has made him 'stop believing in marriage.' In my opinion they all married too young and/or too soon after meeting each other and saw marriage as a chance to basically play house.
Two of my bridesmaids and my FI are divorced (all before the age of 25--all due to infidelity on their spouses' parts). Although I try not to compare myself to her or live in her shadow, I am definitely learning from the mistakes of my FI's ex. (Infidelity was not their only problem--just the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back.)
Mrs. Bee, I love book clubs!
I am the first of my friends to get married, so none of my friends have been divorced yet....here's hoping it stays that way! I will say, it can be hard to watch friends get involved in serious relationships that you don't think are "right" and not be able to say anything. You just have to hope that they share something that you don't know about, and that's why there are good for each other.
I am the second of my friends to get married. The first friend that got married just celebrated her one year anniversary.
Marriages in both our families are going strong. No divorce. Though we've seen our fair share of nasty fights from both our parents, they're all still stuck together. :)
Well there's me - I got married and divorced young.... and my friend who's the same age as me did as well. She was pretty much forced to marry the guy by their religious families after she got pregnant. She tried to make a go of it, but finally just said it was too much and left. Now she and her daughter are very happy and she's planning to get married to someone she actually loves.
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We are pretty much the first of our friends to get married, and so far there are no divorces. But statistically speaking I'm sure there will be some sooner or later.
interesting topic. First, I love the idea of a book club!
I only have one acquaintance (an usher in my sister's wedding, he's friend's with her husband) that is divorced (due to the wife's cheating) and he's engaged to be married again. My brother-in law is the best man for the wedding, but my sister and he don't give it much time to last, which is sad. Other than that one of my friends (all of us are in our middle 20s) will be celebrating her 2 year anniversary, and another close friend her one year annivesary this summer...all going strong. All family members and FI's married friends (in their late 20s/early 30s) are going strong as well. (Except FIs parents who are divorced but are close friends) Makes me feel lucky and freaked at the same time!
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I have a close friend who divorced in August of 2008. They married in January of 2006, eight months after graduating from college. She mentally checked out of the marriage in the summer of 2007, and they chose not to even try counseling. When I asked he why she married him in the first place, she said she thought it was "just what you do" when you have a college boyfriend and are graduating.
During our conversations, I told my friend something my mom told me during a particularly rough patch in my parents marriage. Mom told me (and my dad's mom has reiterated it often) that ultimately, the only person totally responsible for your happiness is yourself. You make yourself happy though the choices you make and the ramifications those choices have. She told me to make myself happy, and the rest usually fell into place. My parents marriage hasn't been all roses, but they've stuck out 35 years of ups and downs. They will both tell you getting married at 20 and 21 was the stupidest thing they've ever done, but they kept working at it.
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I've been thinking about starting a book club here on Weddingbee with a focus on relationship books. It got me thinking about the topic of divorce, because one of the books I want to start with is The Divorce Remedy.
I'm 30 years old and I have 4 friends that divorced in their late 20's. There were different reasons for each couple: infidelity, married too young, fell out of love... It's always sad, but I do think some couples are better off apart, and it makes you think about how much commitment goes into maintaining a successful marriage.
Do you have any friends that have gotten divorced?