Achieve Marital Success!?

This article lists factors that affect marital success. People getting married think that things are going to last, but their family history also affects the over success rate of their own marriage. I was looking into factors that influence the couple’s rate of success. So what is under their control and what is not? According to this article on stronger marriage  there are seven factors that influence success within the marriage. 

1. Parent's Marriage. If a couple's parents were happily married, the couple is more likely to be happily married and less likely to divorce. Of course, many individuals whose parents divorced are able to establish happy marriages, but the odds favor those with happily married parents.

2. Childhood. An individual who had a happy, "normal" childhood is more likely to be successful in marriage.

3. Length of Acquaintance. Generally, the longer the acquaintance, the more likely the marriage will be successful. Those who have known each other over one year have better odds than those with acquaintanceships less than a year.

4. Age. In general, those who are older when married have more stable marriages. For example, those who marry at 20 years or older have marriages that last twice as long as those who marry under age 20.

5. Parental Approval. Parental approval is related to marriage success for two reasons: 1) approving parents are more supportive, and 2) disapproving parents may be seeing real problems that will create difficulties for the couple.

6. Premarital Pregnancy. Marriages that are the result of pregnancy have a high rate of failure. Fifty percent end within five years.

7. Reasons for Marriage. Marriages begun because of genuine understanding and caring have better success than those started for the "wrong reasons," such as getting away from home, rebellion, or wanting to be "grown up."

This list is then followed up in the article by other additional factors that my blog posts have already been written upon.

I agree that all of these 7 factors contribute to a successful marriage. Especially because we learn from our parents, their marriage and the upbringing they gave us has a huge effect on the way we think and feel, this affects the success rate of your own marriage. With knowing a person for a longer period of time I think that is builds the relationship and does create a stronger foundation for marriage. Age of course changes the way we feel about things, because our brains are still developing. Our attitude then change from the time of adolescent into adulthood, so what they think they want at 18, is most likely something they will not want when they are 25 or older. I think everything else from the article is pretty straight forward and have an obvious contribution to the success of marriages.