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Episode 212: Do Women Really Initiate 70% of Divorces for Frivolous Reasons?

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

Society & Culture, Science, Christianity, Advice, Family, Social Sciences, Mother, Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Sex, Marriage, Wife

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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0:00.0

What if everything you've been told about the reasons women get divorced is wrong.

0:14.4

I'm Sheila Ray Greguar from Bear Marriage.com where we like to talk about healthy evidence-based

0:19.1

biblical device for your sex life and your marriage

0:24.3

podcast.

0:25.3

we're gonna look at some seriously crappy takes on stats and I am joined today to do that.

0:30.5

By my daughter Rebecca Lintonbach.

0:32.7

Hello, hello.

0:33.8

And here's what I want to tackle.

0:35.9

Are you ready?

0:36.5

Yes.

0:37.1

Okay, there has been an uptick, and I don't know why.

0:39.9

I don't know what's going on,

0:41.2

but there has been an uptick on social media and on other podcasts

0:45.3

of people using two different stats, okay? One saying that women initiate 70% of divorces, which is true.

0:55.2

All right, lots of studies have shown that.

0:58.5

And the reason, the biggest reason

1:01.2

that women initiate those divorces, 75% of women say its lack of commitment.

1:06.5

And people are saying that, see, this proves that women are getting divorced for no reason.

1:14.8

Yeah, which as we will show you is really honestly,

1:19.4

like gold stars to everyone for being able to misrepresent the story as well as you did.

1:25.4

Like I almost feel like that gets an act like what like a Darwin Award but for

1:28.8

stats? Like something like that? Like like how does this even pass the smell test okay because 70 so what they're

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