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ByMashed Staff

No one is ever going to tell you that marriage is easy, but in case there's any doubt, every 13 seconds, another American couple gets divorced, according to the family law professionals at Wilkinson & Finkbeiner.

Moreover, in any given 40-year period, a full 67% of first marriages will end, and the average first marriage that ends in divorce doesn't even make it to eight years.

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So, before we roll up our sleeves to delve into why Giada De Laurentiis got divorced from Todd Thompson, perhaps we ought to begin by offering a hearty congratulations to the erstwhile couple — they married in 2003 and stayed together until their 2014 separation, which was followed by their divorce in 2015 (via E!

News) — for having a marriage that lasted well beyond the American average.

Of course, nothing about celebrity chef, author, and television host, Giada, the Italian-born