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by CocaKoala 3215 days ago
Increases it, obviously; a physician and a bartender who are dating but not married have a zero percent chance of getting divorced!
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> a physician and a bartender who are dating but not married have a zero percent chance of getting divorced!

That's only true if they also have a zero percent chance of getting married.

Getting married will still increase the risk of divorce, because it bumps the odds of getting married up to 100%, but two dating unmarried people have, in general, a nonzero risk of getting divorced.