Show women prefer security over love questionnaire shows in a questionnaire sent out by gretta palmer of good housekeeping bureau to one hundred ex wives and one hundred ex hus husi i bands to help determine why marriages go wrong the most illuminating answer was that 45 of the had gone into marriage with no firm intention of making it a success in other words marriage to them from the start was not tho the real thing but something of a trial balloon they knew that if things went wrong they could always count on divorce as an escape D divorce was their protection without love or even a deep fondness holding them together husbands and wives are bound to quarrel and without a firm de determination termination mi nation to succeed in marriage at all costs with never a thought of divorce many are sure to let the first quarrel lead to the wreck of the home writes miss palmer of 0 the ic questioned only a li ii tle tie more than half had married for love and more startling is that most of these were men seventy five per cent of the women admit ted they had married for other reasons increased prestige ane anc security were checked far more often than love children or I 1 companionship A few months ago a questionnaire was sent out to one hundred EIA red golden wedding couples not one man or woman out that en tired tire group had married for security all of the women and a al most all of the men had married for love I 1 on the average the marriage marrage or 0 the lasted only four and one half years the londt wu was 12 years the shortest six months it seems therefore that the fourth year is the most dangerous year this nis is the year as one answer puts it when trouble arises after the first glamour has worn off and before the habit of being married has had a chance to harden ilow how much time elapsed between divorce and the second marriage was one of the questions asked by miss palmer the majority jorl ty answered that at least two years had elapsed before re remarrying and the average period was between three and four years this is a sign that something other than another love had caused the break up of their homes |