OURtorah and writersoul: Dating for a year isn’t going to fix the problem. Goyim actually move in with each other to ‘try it out’ and many of them end up divorcing anyway after they marry.
The path to a happy and healthy marriage is happy and healthy people. Not how long you date.
Maskim. Whatever anecdotal evidence there might be would, if anything, indicate a correlation between higher divorce rates and longer dating.
about a third were the mutual fault of both parties and a third were the fault of the husband and a third the wife.
Didn’t Rav Avigdor Miller zt”l say that 99% of the time, it’s the woman’s fault?
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…and 90% of the time, it’s the man’s fault?