Don't get too comfortable.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.

A recent article in Fatherly summed up the risk of divorce by married years.

Years 1 to 2 are high risk.

9 to 15 go down too low.

By years 15 to 20, the risk rises again to average.

The article concludes that newlyweds and old married couples should never get too comfortable.

Look, the numbers don't lie, but the danger in studies like this is that it portrays divorce

as something that kind of happens to you, like falling out of love or something like that.

The truth about marriage is, thankfully, more complicated. Couples who are committed enough

to fight for their marriage stand a really good chance of making it.

80% of couples who participated in focus on the family's hope restored marriage intensives

are still together two years later. It also matters what we believe about marriage. As of

2019, divorce in America had reached a 50-year low, but that's because fewer Americans are getting

married at all, so the ones who do marry tend to believe that there's something to it.

And there is.

That's why when it comes to marriage and the health of our society,

none of us should be too comfortable.

I'm John Stone Street.