Two Souls Become One... And Then Two Again

Yeah, so the divorce rate in this country is 50%... It may have gotten a bit higher since I last checked. I don't know how it is in other countries, but that's how it is here in the States. Why is it so high? Is it because people are rushing into what used to be a sacred ceremony? Is it because they found out that they weren't compatible after all? Not ready for the rigors of marriage? Got bored with seeing the same man/woman every day and went to find someone else? ...Or is it a combination of all of those? Most likely.

With so many marriages failing, I could at least take solace in the fact that my parents have been married for over 20 years.

However, the Divorce Storm has now hit close to home.

...No, it's not my parents who are divorcing, thank God.

It's my older brother and his wife.

I don't know how all of this started, because that's their business. All I know is that one day a few weeks ago, my brother posted on his Facebook saying that he was getting a divorce. Now, I'm not going to post everything that's been happening, since it's not in my place. I will say that right now, it seems to be a case of he said/she said. However, things HAVE gotten worse since that first Facebook message.

Worse yet, they have two kids--well, one is his, the youngest is both of their's--and I'm not looking forward to the effect(s) that it's going to have on the youngest one. He said that she's already trying to keep him from seeing him...

Very tragic. They had such a beautiful ceremony, and I was sure that they would make it; 'til death do they part. Looks like I was wrong, sadly...

With this going on, as well as the aforementioned rise in divorce, I wonder what my marriage will be like. I DO plan to get married (the plan was by the time I'm 25, and while I still have time, it looks like that may be pushed back some), but that's a step that I only want to make once--marriages are expensive, after all, and being married multiple times cheapens the specialness of all subsequent marriages. I'll try my hardest to make my marriage work. Divorce is not anything that I personally would want to go through.

...Speaking of multiple marriages, my aunt... Oh boy... I love her, but I can count on both my hands how many times she's been married. XD She's currently engaged to a man again, but unlike the other "marriages", this one is actually going to have a formal ceremony (which means that her other marriages were pretty much "Vegas-style" ceremonies). She's over 50, so I hope that this one isthe one that will work out.