Divorce predictors are things that signal possible disintegration of a marriage. If given a chance, these things will surely break your marriage and the worst part is, they'll make it difficult to fix things after the divorce.
Here are three divorce predictors you shouldn't let into your marriage.
1. Contempt
Contempt means treating your spouse with less importance. You no longer see any value in them like you used to before. It is a huge predictor of divorce and of course a predator of your marriage. When you start despising your spouse, that is contempt and in no time, there will be a divorce. Contempt ruins love in marriage. Give it no chance.
Defensiveness means not taking responsibility for your actions. You instead heap the blame on your spouse. In other words, it means acting like the victim yet you are the one on the wrong. You make excuses like "it's not my fault" when it's actually yours. You are also defensive when you don't get to listen to your spouse's side of the story just because you want to win an argument.
3. Criticism
You need to understand the difference between criticising your spouse and complaining. When you criticize your spouse, you are basically attacking them. Calling them names and blaming them for everything that goes wrong in the marriage is a way of pushing them away. While defensiveness is bound to occur at some point especially during arguments, it is important that you find a way of coming up with a positive outcome.