Exactly five years ago today, I manned the guestbook and "floofed" the bride's train in a beautiful wedding. It was raining, but we got some cute pictures of the groom holding an umbrella over his new wife as they ran to the car.

They had everything going for them. They both came from happy two-parent families, had been dating for about two years, and seemed perfect for each other. They didn't have a lot of money, but they were able to put a small down payment on a house. Within four years they had two adorable little girls. They loved God, each other, and their kids.

And now they are getting divorced. The part that's even more sad is that this is the second one of my friends to get divorced in less than two months. What went wrong? The statistics say that something like half of all marriages end in divorce.

I watched my mom go through a messy divorce, and vowed that I would NOT go through the same thing. So what is my point? My hope is that the divorce rate will begin to turn around because the kids of the divorced parents are growing up and realizing how terrible divorce is. Maybe enough of us not-yet-married ones have seen the results of divorce and have decided to do things differently.

Ell"Will NOT be another statistic!"myruh