If You Have Room for Another Marriage-Related Essay…

“Whatever happens, we’re never going to get divorced.” Over the course of 16 years, I said that often to my husband, especially after our children were born. Apparently, much of my generation feels at least roughly the same way: Divorce rates, which peaked around 1980, are now at their lowest level since 1970. In fact, the often-cited statistic that half of all marriages end in divorce was true only in the 1970s — in other words, our parents’ marriages.

This is a little late, but in case you missed Susan Gregory Thomas’s affecting WSJ piece on divorce, it has a … surprise ending. (And the book from which it’s excerpted, In Spite of Everything: A Memoir, comes out today.)