Hello blog.  I've missed you!  Things got busy this past week and I haven't made it to post anything all week.  I need to catch up and not get so busy.

So, what to talk about today.  My husband and I will celebrate 41 years together on March 6th.  That's practically a life time.  There are some people that don't even live that long.  We have our rough spots but it would be interesting to see if we can get to 50!  My parents were going on 61 years when my mother passed and my husband's parents were together for almost 60 years before my mother-in-law passed.    It's an oddity any more to see couples together for so long.  So, I'm curious. I start researching the percentage of people who stay married (you know me, I'm a researcher).  But I am alarmed at what I find. 

I google marriage statistics 2012 and find a chart that says a female married in 1971 does not make it past the 30th anniversary and the shocking part: the note at the bottom of the chart that says "Marriage cohort had not sufficient time to reach stated anniversary at time of the survey."  What the heck does that mean? There's no one who made it past 30 years in this survey? How can that be possible?

So, I move on to something a little more interesting and with more information.  I come across the "Highest Divorce Rates In the World".  Interesting, right?  Well, listen to this: Russia has 5 divorces per 1,000 people; Belarus (where is that you say? it's a country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania. You're welcome.) 3.8 per 1,000;  Ukraine 3.6 per 1,000; Moldova (never heard of it right? It's a small, former Soviet country sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine.) has 3.5 divorces per 1000 people; Cayman Islands: 3.4 per every 1000 Caymanians;  the United States as a whole has the 5th highest divorce rate in the world—3.4 divorces per every 1000 people; Bermuda: 3.3 per 1,000; Cuba: 3.2 per 1,000 (less than the US!); Lithuania in 9th place at 3.1 per 1,000 people; and last, which is actually 1st in the least amount of divorces is Czech Republic 3 per 1,000 beer guzzling Czechs. Czech is known for their beer and has the highest beer consumption per capita in the world! 

So the moral of this story is to drink more beer!