What are the Chances?

A rainy Monday morning seems a good time to write in my blog.

Recently I learned that another brother's marriage has become a casualty of separation.

It seems the 'D' word is getting us from the eldest down, all after 25 years plus of marriage.

My parents would 'roll over in their graves' as the saying goes.

They enjoyed a fifty year marriage before my father died, which makes me wonder what the likelihood of 3 of 4 of their children divorcing means statistically in the general population.

One in two marriages is closer to that number. Three in four is high, thank God!

What is happening in our society, but more specifically in my family of origin, I ask myself.

Having a 'keen analytical mind', as a former post-graduate professor described mine in a past letter of reference, I wonder about these things.

When I examine the timing of my first sibling's separation, it occurred after the deaths of my Dad and my brother's eldest child.

My own then followed after these deaths, and the loss of a business coupled with my diagnosis of illness.

Now a younger brother's marriage is ending less than nine months after the death of my mother.

Loss and grief appears to be at least one of the catalysts in the dissolution of a long-term relationship.

Now that would be an excellent thesis research exploration!