These days, the divorce rate is on it's way down for the first time in decades.
Just twenty years ago, 50 percent of marriages ended in divorce.
Today, divorce rates are still high, but we're seeing a dramatic uptick in divorced former couples that still work on their relationship, often for the sake of their kids.
Equally notable? Married couples appear to be staying together, longer and stronger than before.
Maybe that's partially because we're finally putting a persistent marital myth to bed: that you need to sow your wild oats far and wide before you settle down.
But lots of newly-married couples seem to be coming to a realization, discovering that, when you marry one person, you're actually getting about 10 different partners.
That's the theme of a recent Facebook post from business personality Dale Partridge, who recently took to his social media page to explain why he's not really married to "only one woman."
Scroll through below to read Partidge's powerful words about the woman he married.
"Men are so worried that marriage will leave them with “only one woman” for the rest of their lives.
That’s simply not true."
"I fell in love with a 19-year-old rock climber, married a 20-year-old animal lover, started a family with a 24-year-old mother, then built a farm with a 25-year-old homemaker, and today I’m married to a 27-year-old woman of wisdom."
"If your mind is healthy, you’ll never get tired of “one woman”.
You’ll actually become overwhelmed with how many beautiful versions of her you get to marry over the years.
Don’t say no to marriage, say yes and keep saying yes until the day you die."
Partridge, who is best-known as a blogger and a founder of StartUp Camp, knows exactly what he's talking about.
He and his wife Veronica have two beautiful children and wonderful life together.
They're still young, but they already have a wealth of shared history and experiences.
They married young, and there are still plenty of folks that would say that they didn't get the chance to experience the world and date different people before they settled down.
Partridge argues that, actually, they've been married to a lot of different people in their time together.
That's because one advantage of marrying young is that you grow up together.
We all change over the years, and none of us would claim to be the exact same person at 40 as we were at 20.
It seems to us that the Partridges simply figured out this fundamental truth earlier than most.
They may still be young, but we have no doubt that they have a wonderful future ahead of them, finding themselves married over and over again to different versions of the people they were when they first met.
If you agree that, when you marry, you marry all of the people your partner will become, please be sure to SHARE with the married folks in your life!
