For Men: Were you aware that the more educated the woman, the less likely she...

[Killer Tomato]

...is to divorce you? Assuming of course that YOU TOO are well educated:

"For large segments of the population, the risk of divorce is FAR below fifty percent.

Although the OVERALL divorce rate in America remains close to fifty percent of all marriages, it has been dropping gradually over the past two decades. Also, the risk of divorce is FAR BELOW FIFTY PERCENT for educated people going into their first marriage, and lower still for people who wait to marry at least until their mid-twenties, haven't lived with many different partners prior to marriage, or are strongly religious and marry someone of the same faith."

http://marriage.rutgers.edu/Publications/pubtenthingsyoungadults.htm

So hitting the books acts as anti-divorce insurance as well as making you healthy, wealthy and wise.
Sorry blah, not an iota of empirical evidence to support this.
Kapetein, your observation that people stay together because they are afraid to "contradict their faith", I wholeheartedly agree with. Then again, it wasn't the job of the researchers to tease that one apart.