If your wife agrees to say the traditional wedding vows of: "Will you obey him, and serve him, love, honor, and keep him in sickness and in health? And forsaking all others keep yourself only to him, so long as you both shall live?"
If your fiancee agrees to these wedding vows, your marriage will last. If she doesn't agree to those vows, your wedding won't last. It's simple stuff.
Have more than a couple of kids starting no later than 2 years and your marriage will probably last.
All the single moms on dating apps beg to differ. My trick is actually going to correlate with outcomes much more closely. Though, I agree with you that kids are important.
MORE THAN A COUPLE
3+
Divorce rate dramatically lowers when the couple has 3 or more kids
Hmm, good point... I actually haven't seen very many single moms with 3+ kids, could also be because few women want 3+ kids but that could also be a correlative factor of marriages lasting. I think women that pull the "I only want 1-2 kids because I want to have time to work + do other things and it's expensive" don't have the right values for marriage to last. The women who want 3+ kids are more family oriented and thus, the probability of the marriage lasting is higher.
Funny story on that though. I do know of one guy who had 3 kids with his wife and then his wife left him. This multi-millionaire guy. I worked for his company. Hid wife was the hottest blonde bimbo you could imagine. The guy was a short pudgy guy. Typical rich guy with golddigger. Anyway, he signed a prenup BUT the prenup had a clause in it where it became void if there were 3+ kids. Immediately after having 3 kids, his wife left him.... Idiot.
I got that stat from a book, sorry to blow up, but it does seem if you can hit three kids it does help and the purpose of a marriage does seem to be to have kids and will naturally fall a part if you don’t.