Divorce rates spiked after it became easier to get one through no-fault divorce, and slowly reduced from there.
Now, we need to consider the difference between that and cohabiting couples, but the other piece is that there were a lot of unhappy marriages that had no escape until no-fault divorce. They weren't better about talking about everything, but they were even worse at bucking societal expectation.
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The divorce rate over time does not support this argument. https://cdn.carrot.com/uploads/sites/24362/2021/03/Divorce-R...
Divorce rates spiked after it became easier to get one through no-fault divorce, and slowly reduced from there.
Now, we need to consider the difference between that and cohabiting couples, but the other piece is that there were a lot of unhappy marriages that had no escape until no-fault divorce. They weren't better about talking about everything, but they were even worse at bucking societal expectation.
The divorce rate over time does not support this argument.
No it doesn't so much bearing. I was talking about the situation with communications in relationships in the present day, not back in the 80's.