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Young girls from a very early age are told stories that described prince charming and how he is the perfect man. Normally the princess is waiting to be rescued and ends upwith the handsome prince that will love her forever. The stories always end with the line “And they lived happily ever after”. The truth is that “happily ever after” are stories that haven’t finishedyet, in other words it doesn’t exist. On average 50% of marriages end in divorce and roughly 1 in 5 adults has divorced. So if happily ever after can take place in fairy tales, why is there such ahigh divorce rate? Though many things can be attributed to the soaring statistic three main reasons stand above the rest. Lack of commitment to the marriage, infidelity, or poor communication is themajor causes of divorce.
I feel that lack of commitment is the reason marriage is failing. I’ve got a friend, who recently got married at the age of nineteen; he regrets his decision every day. Hehad a baby with his girlfriend of two years and after the baby was born, the parents of his girlfriend started to pressure him to do what was right for the baby. He is now a married man, who cheats onhis wife, resents the fact that he was forced into marriage, and is unsure if he can be a good husband. This is just one story that has a strong potential for divorce. Both partners are not committedto this marriage. A few decades ago marrying someone because of an unplanned pregnancy was considered the proper the to do but today marrying someone for that reason alone is not enough to sustain alasting relationship.
Cheating is the most common and unforgivable ways that a husband or wife can be betray the sanctity of marriage. That was the case of my friend. His new wife found outabout some of the things that he did. She was devastated to find out that he had cheated on her just days before their wedding she even thought about getting the marriage annulled. Luckily for him her...