According to a study reported in LiveScience, a bride’s cold feet at the wedding altar is a strong predictor of divorce.
When researchers asked the newlyweds, “Were you ever uncertain or hesitant about getting married?”
- 47% of husbands answered “yes,”
- 38% of wives said “yes”
While men were more likely to have cold feet, their wives’ reservations better predicted future problems.
Newlywed wives who had doubts about getting married before their wedding were two-and-a-half times more likely to divorce four years later than wives without these doubts.
In 36 percent of couples, both partners said they had no doubts before the wedding, and of those, just 6 percent got divorced by the four-year mark.
Among couples in which the wife or both spouses reported premarital doubts, 20 percent got divorced.
“Do the doubts go away when you have a mortgage and two kids? Don’t count on that.”
The Homa Files 
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