Adele’s first single “Easy On Me” from her latest album “30” has her explaining to her son and former husband why she chose to walk away from her short marriage: “I changed who I was to put you both first, but now I give up”.

The average length of a marriage has been between 9 and 12 years. And that hasn’t changed much during the last 50 years. There are no data yet for same sex marriages.