Marriage Interview Research Paper

For my marriage interview, I have decided to interview my mother’s friend and how she was able to weather the storm. Nationally, the divorce rates and remarriage rates are on the rise which reflects how our society changed over time. The hardest part of this interview, sadly, was the fact that I needed to find a couple that has been married for more than 15 years. With the divorce rates up, one of the things that all my friends have in common, are our divorced parents and not all of us keep in contact with our other parent. With this being common throughout today’s society, the value of divorce and marriage have changed from the past, where marriages have been arranged by parents while in today’s society marriages are performed for emotional attachment or love. But why are the divorce rates on the rise, if marriages today are performed for love? Through this interview I was …show more content…
I began by telling her the rising divorce rates and what she personally also thought of my mother’s marriage. She surprised me with her answer that she’s done a bit of research and found that the recession destroyed many marriages and that also gave a slight rise to the divorces. Then I probed a little deeper and asked if she thought money was the major reason for couples divorcing. I told her, that I thought, money was the thing that destroyed my parent’s marriage. She went a bit personal and told me of the mistakes my parents did when they were having a hard time and she added that it’s not the value of money but how someone spends it. Right away she was able to tell me that money is not what keeps a marriage together but that it is a huge factor in breaking them apart. She told me that my mother told her that money can’t buy happiness or joy for me and also added that separating me and my brother from the arguments were also the hardest