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it seems it’s better to marry an engineer than a dancer if you want longevity in the relationship. A recent study determines that certain professions have higher divorce rates than others.

“Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.” Will Rogers
The Washington Post published an article titled Study breaks down divorce rates by occupation which lists the percentages:

Only 14.5 percent of law enforcement officers who had been married said the same. (The rates varied widely across the profession, though: Just 12.5 percent of detectives were divorced, but 25.5 percent of fish and game wardens had broken up with a spouse.)
Dancers and choreographers registered the highest divorce rates (43.1 percent), followed by bartenders (38.4 percent) and massage therapists (38.2 percent). Also in the top 10 were casino workers, telephone operators, nurses and home health aides.
Three types of engineers — agricultural, sales and nuclear engineers — were represented among the 10 occupations with the lowest divorce rates. Also reporting low marital breakup rates were optometrists (4 percent), clergy (5.6 percent) and podiatrists (6.8 percent).

“Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.” Katharine Hepburn

Sounds like I chose the wrong profession in my marriage partner – he was an artist (probably alongside the bartender stats I would imagine) so obviously far away from the engineer stats!  Hopefully I will choose better next time???  But who knew then that the profession of a marriage partner was the key.  I wonder if entrepreneur stats have been taken, with the degree of stress that you live with, I would imagine that marriages may not last long unless of course you were a technical founder???
The numbers don’t paint a complete picture. If a person had divorced and remarried by the time of the Census, they would be counted as married. So it could be the case that people in some occupations are just quicker to jump into the next marriage than others.
The authors also point out that the data don’t reveal whether it’s the nature of the jobs that lead to divorce, or if people prone to unstable relationships are drawn to certain professions.
Terri Orbuch, a sociologist and director of a long-term study on marriage funded by the National Institutes of Health, thinks that our working lives can directly affect our home lives.

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” Ronald Reagan

“One of the things I found is that job stress spills over into our relationships. It can be not getting along with our colleagues or our boss . . . or the actual amount of time that we need to spend at work or doing work at home that spills over and affects our marriages negatively,” says Orbuch, author of “5 Simple Steps to Take Your Marriage From Good to Great.”

Well there you go it was stress after all that causes the divorces so if you are you in a high stress career then you may have to suffer the consequences of high numbers in divorce.  The odds are not as good unless you are really good at meditation & coping with stress & remaining a loving, caring partner.  Let me know what job you have & how many divorces you have under your belt in the comments below.

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  • http://www.familylawjax.com/child-support-enforcement-jacksonville-florida/ Lonnie Spargo

    It’s kind of ironic that stress causes divorces while the process of divorce itself is stressful. Perhaps there is some other, more deep-seated issue than stress that triggers tension in relationships. Isn’t it possible that the rate of social interaction for some professions may also be a reason?

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