A recent article on MSN.com highlighted a survey titled How Couples Meet and Stay Together. A report on the survey, authored by Michael Rosenfeld, associate professor of sociology at Stanford University, examined data from 2009 – 2015 that tracked 2,262 American adult relationships. As the article notes, the study found that of those couples who divorced during the period of the study, women were the instigators 69% of the time. It may take another study to fully understand why.

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