Couples closer in age less likely to divorce?

The study reported a few weeks ago, saying the more you sepd on your wedding the more likely you are to divorce, also shows that the further apart a couple is in are, the more likely they are to divorce, according to a blog posting with charts, "What makes for a stable marriage? Part 2" by Randy Olson. It also addressed several other variables.

This flies in the face of tens of millions of Chinese-restaurant menu horoscopes, which all say that people born four years apart are the most compatible.

 

The original study is “A Diamond Is Forever and Other Fairy Tales: The Relationship Between Wedding Expenses and Marriage Duration” – Francis and Mialon 2014. This link is to an abstract which in turn has a link to a free download of the study.

Looking at the tables in the original study I can't