The average married couple has sex 68.5 times a year, which is slightly more than once a week.
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75%
of people who marry partners from an affair eventually divorce.
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1 in every 5 couples has
a sexless marriage, having less than 10 encounters a year.
a sexless marriage, having less than 10 encounters a year.
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The word "bride" comes from an old proto-germanic word meaning "to cook".
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In France, you can marry a dead person.
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About 300 couples marry in Las Vegas every day.
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A man married a dog in India as atonement.
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People who endure more than 45-minute commute are 40% more likely to divorce.
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A 99-year-old man divorced his 96-year-old wife after 77 years of marriage because he discovered an affair she had in the 1940s.
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First marriages that end in a divorce usually last approximately 8 years.
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A woman named Erika La Tour Eiffel "married" the Eiffel Tower in 2007.
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Couples who live together before engagement have a higher divorce rates than those who wait.
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Most married couples are happiest in their third year of marriage.
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In Iran, a law from 2013 allows Men to marry their 13-year-old adopted daughters.
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Nero, the Roman Emperor,
married a man,
one of his freedmen,
taking the role of the bride.
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The tradition of exchanging wedding rings goes back to ancient Egyptian times.
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Couples who spend more money on their wedding have a higher divorce rates, a study found.
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Interracial marriage was banned in the U.S. for much of its history: from 1776 to 1967.
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Mail-order marriages are less likely to end in divorce than marriages overall in the U.S., a study found.
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Marital infidelity was punishable with jail in South Korea until 2015.
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Couples who spend less on their wedding tend to have longer-lasting marriages.
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74% of young Indians prefer an arranged marriage over a free-choice one, a 2013 survey found.
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69% of marriages in Ethiopia occur through abduction.
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Gamophobia is the fear of getting married or being in a relationship.
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People who get married between 28 and 32 split up least in the ensuing years, a study found.
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In Vietnam, marriage applicants must acquire a Certificate of Good Mental Health from a doctor before being allowed to marry.
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Adultery was Illegal in 18 U.S. States up until 2013.
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One in three newlyweds say their spouse's spending habits are different than what they expected, according to a U.S. survey.
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Each year, 15 million girls get married before the age of 18.
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In 1960, 59% of American adults aged 18-29 were married. Today, only 20% are married.
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Hitler married Eva Braun less than 40 hours before they died.
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With an average cost of over US$80,000 per wedding, Manhattan is the most expensive place to get married in the U.S.
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From 1907 to 1922, women who were U.S. citizens lost their citizenship if they married foreigners.
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In 2012, about 42 million Americans had never been married, twice as many as in 1960.
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A Swedish woman "married" the Berlin Wall in front of a few guests in 1979. She was devastated when most of it was torn down in 1989.
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In 38 U.S. states, more than 167,000 children —mostly girls, some as young as 12— were married from 2000 to 2010, mostly to men 18 or older.
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You can be sued for breaking off an engagement in about half of U.S. states.
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A Mexican couple, Octavio Guillen and Adriana Martinez, was engaged for 67 years.
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A UK survey found that more than half of couples do not consumate their marriage on their wedding night, mostly because the groom is too drunk.
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People in the most successful marriages spend an average of 5 more hours a week being together and talking, marriage researcher John Gottman found.
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