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Hey, everyone, welcome to the Big Picture Retirement Show.

I'm your host, Evan, joined by my co-host, John Ross.

Okay. John, divorce is a really bad thing. I've never had to experience it, but I've had a lot of clients who have had to experience it. And it's, it's just never very pleasant.

Yeah, no, I've never, i've never had anybody say man i

really enjoyed that divorce right wow that i could do that every friday night no nobody nobody has

ever said that it's usually something that leaves both parties in a

worst state, although I've heard some people say, look, getting a divorce was the best thing that

ever happened. There's that, but the process of it is so nasty. Yeah, is so nasty. Typically

bad. Yeah, you know, we have, we have acquaintances and friends on both sides of that.

Some who still get along very well together.

In fact, they will take their kids out to dinner together, you know.

And then we have some who are constantly trying to get each other locked up in jail, you know,

throwing around criminal charges this, criminal charges that. And it's just a dumpster fire. But divorce is actually, the overall rate of

divorce is actually declining, which is good news. Now, maybe that's because the rate of

marriage is also declining. So there's not as many people married to get a divorce.

Fair enough, right? But what's interesting is that the rate of this so-called gray divorce is

increasing. Yep. I think this was first brought out in some data in the journals of gerontology,

where they noted that the divorce rate in the 50 and up crowd is increasing

and that among all the divorces, one in 10 are in individuals who are over the age of 65.

I have to say, that surprises me. You would think, especially if this is a long-term marriage,

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