Hello, MJ! I like the analytical thinking going on here. I haven't bumped into the statistic you've mentioned here, but there's likely some study somewhere that says that. I was just reading one study that was talking about "60% of people do this and that" but then it turns out the study involved 52 people. So...who knows how much we should read into any of these numbers. I have noticed a bit of info that seems to be implying that divorce is becoming more and more common for people after age 50 which seems to be a relatively new trend. Like you mentioned, it used to seem that the longer people were married, the less likely they were to get divorced. Looks like the new trendy word for that is 'gray divorce'. Here's a link to one such piece about that, but I think you know that what we individually do in marriage probably matters way more than what some stats and studies say:) https://www.everydayhealth.com/emotional-health/why-more-couples-are-divorcing-at-older-ages-than-before-and-what-you-can-do-to-avoid-it/