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  • do interracial couples get divorced?

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    11.19.09, 12:58 PM [ Flag ]
    • no, never.

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      11.19.09, 12:58 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • I'm not even sure that it is legal for them to do so. I know there is a Supreme Court case that held they have a right to get married, but it didn't discuss divorce. Hmm.

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        11.19.09, 01:01 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • I have to research the case law in this... hmmm...

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          11.19.09, 01:05 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
          • No need to research. Take my word for it -- it is odd, but true.

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            11.19.09, 01:07 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
            • i didn't ask can they, but do they. i don't think so. i think their unions are stronger and thus last forever.

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              11.19.09, 01:11 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
              • np: are you serious? you realize that they are human, right? and what about all of the interracial couples that never get married, but have a kid and then break up? what about their unions?

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                11.19.09, 01:13 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
              • As half of a deliriously happy married interracial couple, I say: WTF??

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                11.19.09, 01:14 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                • do you know any interracial previously married couples that divorced?

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                  11.19.09, 01:18 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                  • np: i do. there goes your theory!

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                    11.19.09, 01:21 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                  • np: you realize this is a statistics thing, right? the number of interracial couples you know is probably way smaller than the number of same-race couples you know. so even if they have the same rate of divorce, you will know many fewer divorced interracial couples.

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                    11.19.09, 01:21 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                  • I know two couples that divorced, and one of them were interracial. God you'e so weird... and patronizing... and a little racist.

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                    11.19.09, 01:22 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                    • i'm trying to picture who OP is.

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                      11.19.09, 01:23 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                    • racist against whom? how can you say that?

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                      11.19.09, 01:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                      • np: when you assume something of people, based on their race, it is racist. even when the stereotype is positive, it is racist. they are people, they are not defined by their race. interracial couples are human, with human flaws, just like any other sort of couple!

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                        11.19.09, 01:33 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                      • Because it assumes that interracial couples are "special" somehow. Like they're not like any other couple. Just because it's not a negative per se, doesn't mean it's not racist, since you're still making judgements and assumptions based on race.

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                        11.19.09, 01:39 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                        • it's not based on race, it's more based on circumstance or situation.

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                          11.19.09, 01:51 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                        • The situation based on race, yes.

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                          11.19.09, 01:58 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                        • I think OP's question is idiotic but the people responding that it's racist to make assumptions of people based on just their race: how do you feel about affirmative action? Same assumption principles, isn't it?

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                          11.19.09, 08:31 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                        • I'm one of the posters (in an interracial marriage) who called the post racist. Yes, I feel that affirmative action is racist, too.

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                          11.20.09, 06:17 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                        • Thank you. That is awesome that you are so consistent. Few are.

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                          11.20.09, 10:13 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
              • And what makes their union stronger?

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                11.19.09, 01:17 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                • i think because of what they will face they consider marriage much more closely and have a stronger bond.

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                  11.19.09, 01:35 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                  • "What they will face"??? Come on, DH and I laugh at the minor things that do occasionally happen. Are you in the Deep South or something?

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                    11.19.09, 01:42 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
                  • I think that's crap. I don't think interracial couples consider marriage more closely or have a stronger bond. My friend's divorce just became final. She was in an interracial marriage. I am too, my marriage is fine.

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                    11.19.09, 07:21 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
            • Umm - my BIL and former SIL were an interracial couple, and they got divorced.

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              11.19.09, 01:22 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • Yes, left quite a pickle.

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          11.19.09, 01:06 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • what about same-sex interracial couples, though? an even bigger conundrum.

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          11.19.09, 01:08 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • I thought there was jurisprudence on them not being allowed to have children?

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          11.20.09, 10:22 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • what?

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      11.19.09, 01:01 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • Never. Ever. The sex is always so hot.

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      11.19.09, 01:08 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • according to a judge in louisiana, almost every time

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      11.19.09, 01:49 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • the responses to this post are hilarious. OP why in the world did you ask such dumb question?

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      11.19.09, 06:11 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • in all seriousness, the rate of divorce for interracial couples is actually lower than for couples of the same race.

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      11.19.09, 06:12 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • ^^ I'm in an interracial marriage, and I know that for us and for other couples I know, one thing that happens is that when you're dating because you're interrcial you just communicate on a different level and you take your relationship more seriously because you have to deal with some external and internal stuff that others don't necessarily have to deal with.

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        11.19.09, 06:17 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • many couples who are not in a biracial relationship take those relationships seriously.

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          11.19.09, 06:21 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • Do you seriously believe this? OK, I'm in an interracial marriage for the last 13 years and I can honestly say before we got married we didn't have any conversations about it. We just saw each other for who we are. It wasn't any big discussion with our families either. They both could care less what race we are, as long as we're happy. Now this might how something to do with the fact that both my husband and I had dated people of many different races before we got married so race was no thing to us.

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          11.19.09, 06:41 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
          • ok well that's your experience but I assure you it's not the experience of most.

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            11.19.09, 06:46 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
            • NP: I assure you it is. Another interracial gal here, together 12 years. Never talked about it. We love each other for who we are.

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              11.19.09, 06:52 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
              • NP: Yet ANOTHER interracial wife of 7 yrs. Have never had to explicitly talk about it, and our respective families couldn't care less either. This ain't Georgia circa 1954.

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                11.20.09, 12:42 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • You don't sound like you're in an interracial relationship at all. I think you're just trying to stir the pot. A rare consensus on UB! The only poster who seems to think it makes a difference is you.

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          11.19.09, 06:53 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • what internal stuff would you have to deal with? A person is a person. Why would you have to communicate on a different level?

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          11.19.09, 06:56 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • you're nuts

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          11.19.09, 07:24 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • Please, post a link to the evidence.

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          11.20.09, 10:22 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • I knew it!

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        11.20.09, 12:34 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • What a bizarre question. We are an interracial couple and we fight like nobody's business.

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      11.19.09, 06:15 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • My friend in the product of an interracial couple and her husband is %100 AA. Even though she is not that smart they seem to have a good family life. They do live in east Harlem though and he wants to move to Jersey!

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      11.19.09, 07:24 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • You win the award for nonsensical answer to nonsensical post.

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        11.19.09, 07:51 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
        • It was an inside joke on a public forum. This entire thread is the most ridiculous one that has ever been on here.

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          11.19.09, 07:54 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
          • And that's really saying something. Although, I have to say, every time I see mass censensus on UB I assume FAKE.

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            11.20.09, 06:20 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
    • I'll bite. I am not in an inter-racial marriage perse, but in an inter-cultural marriage. I think for those that date and marry outside of their and their family's comfort zones, you have to really love the person to deal with all the surrounding noise. My wife was told that our marriage would never last because we aren't the same religion, and both my mother and grandmother flat out told me I shouldn't marry my wife. We are now in our 6th year of marriage with 2 lovely children

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      11.20.09, 08:45 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
      • We are in our mid-30s and many of our friends/family/acquaintances are getting divorced. I guess the point is that a lot of people who marry others from very similar backgrounds may be doing so just to please family or take the easy road. Dating someone of another ethnicity/background/race takes a lot of guts, and marrying them even more so.

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        11.20.09, 08:48 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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