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The Rising “Gray” Divorce Rate: What’s Behind the Shocking Epidemic

Why are so many couples our age calling it quits? Here are answers—beyond pandemic stress—and some advice to avoid becoming a statistic.

The country is opening up again. People are stumbling out of quarantines and social bubbles like cave dwellers into the sun. Among the many questions about how people will adjust to a post-pandemic world is what will happen to the midlife divorce rate, which has been rising precipitously over the past decades and may just spike after all the (not-always-joyful) togetherness of the past 14 months. 

As more couples have been following Fleetwood Mac's lyrical suggestion to "go your own way,” many of us have wondered what's been fueling the increase—apart from the pandemic stress. Duos who always had a rocky union are calling it quits. And even those “have it all” couples—the ones with the glossy kids and careers, the HGTV-ready house, and the “come on baby” body language at the neighborhood block party—are packing it in.

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