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Getting married in the 21st century, episode 4: “There is a whole business of marriage and a whole business of divorce”

2022-10-04T16:56:25.425Z


INTERVIEW - The philosopher Didier Moreau is the author of a stimulating essay devoted to the causes of separations and the means of keeping a union in (good) working order.


After getting married, people sometimes divorce.

Often, in fact.

The proportion, archi-repeated, is known: one out of two marriages ends in divorce.

To put it with the poetry of INSEE, for 100 marriages "

the total divorce rate

" has been around 45% since the early 2000s. If one in five marriages contracted in 1970 broke up before its twentieth anniversary, this is the case for one in three marriages for those of 1990.



Philosopher, author of the essay

Pour la vie

(Seuil, 2014), Denis Moreau has reflected on the causes of this sentimental carnage.

And how to avoid it.

LE FIGARO .- In your essay

Pour la vie

, you say that at each meeting with a friend, not seen for weeks, you were afraid to see him “

confiding in a breath “you know, with X, we separated”

".

Is it this observation that prompted you to write this book?


Denis Moreau -

In the early 2010s, when I myself had been married for almost twenty years, many friends…

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Source: lefigaro

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