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

Bare Marriage

Sheila Gregoire

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

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🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The study that people say claim 75% of women divorce for lack of commitment (it doesn't really say that): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012696/

The study on how men are six times more likely to leave when one spouse is diagnosed with a life-altering disease: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19645027/

She Divorced Me Because I Left Dishes in the Sink: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/she-divorced-me-i-left-dishes-by-the-sink_b_9055288 Plus Matthew Fray's book This Is How Your Marriage Ends: https://amzn.to/45PSM6w

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The study that found that women do more housework the more they out-earn their husbands: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3028208/

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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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