In Year 8
Written on May 19, 2009 by Craig
By year 8 of any development process or lifestyle change you should know for sure if you’ve become a success or its time to pull out. It’s funny how significant the span of 8 years is in our life. Elementary and middle school are 8 years long. High school and college are traditionally the next 8-year span of our lives. If you want to become a medical doctor, it will generally take 8 years to complete medical school, your internship and your medical residency or specialty.
Likewise, once we graduate from college it takes another 8 years of life in the workplace before we’re really humming, making the level of income we feel we deserve and rightfully worked to obtain. Around the 8-year mark out of college is when most young people are marrying these days, as the average age of marriage has risen in America in recent years and now stands at 29.
About 8 years into a marriage is when most marriages reach a point of no return. Experts say that if a marriage can last 8 years, people have a much higher probability of being married for life. Whereas, if your marriage is going to be short-lived, it is more likely to happen in year 8 than it is in any of the first 7 years. I think one reason for this is because it’s about that time in life where “middle age crazy” sets in.
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