University of Utah researcher Nicholas Wolfinger reckons that marrying in your late 20s or early 30s reduces your risk of divorce.

Wolfinger studied data from the National Survey of Family Growth, says that divorce risk seems to go up for couples who marry in their late thirties or later.

Wolfinger says, ‘For years, it seemed like the longer you waited to marry, the better.

‘That’s because the relationship between age at marriage and divorce risk was almost linear: The older you were, the lower the chances of divorce

“Although teens still face an elevated divorce risk relative to older adults, my analysis of more recent data shows that those who tie the knot after their early thirties are now more likely to divorce than those who marry in their late twenties.’