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What if we invested in saving marriages instead of normalising divorce?
Our efforts to destigmatise divorce may have gone too far. If a marriage can be salvaged, let’s teach couples how to give it a chance.
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Singaporeans do not take the decision to get divorced lightly, with the median marriage duration before divorce in 2024 being 11.1 years.
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Laremy Lee
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Recently released figures from the Department of Statistics (DOS) show 7,382 marriages were dissolved in Singapore in 2024. I never thought mine would be one of them.
In December 2019, I was blindsided when my wife suddenly said, “I never loved you to begin with”, packed her bags and left.
