Two popular misconceptions create an inaccurate view of marriage.
It is a popular misconception that most marriages are just hanging on. The reality is that most people enjoy being married! In our survey for The Surprising Secrets of Highly Happy Marriages, which compared both husband and wife answers, 71% of couples had good-to-great marriages, and 29% had so-so or struggling marriages.
Another popular misconception is that “the rate of divorce (and unhappy marriages) is the same in the church,” but that is the furthest thing from the truth. Most people who attend church regularly have significantly lower rates of marriage problems—and far higher rates of truly happy marriages! (This could account for why the Iron Sharpens Iron—a Christian ministry—satisfaction numbers were higher than in our survey of the general population.)
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