Same sex marriage was not legal anywhere in the united states when i started studying intimacy and marriage 20 years ago. Ben says that other countries have gathered data on this, and over all, same sex marriages are much less likely end in divorce then opposite sex marriages. In belgium, between two thousand four and two thousand nine, the average annual divorce rate for same sex marriages was less than two %. And the total rate of divorce was 11%. Now in norway and sweden, the same sex marriage divorce rates are 50% lower than posite sex marriages. Among those, lesbian couples do divorce more than same sex marriage among men.

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