A marriage counselor in Serbia is challenging the notion that marriage as an institution is broken, placing the fault with the people who enter it. Her observations come alongside new statistics on how Serbs are building families. Women in the country enter their first marriage at an average age of 29, while men do so at 32. Nearly 29,500 marriages were registered across Serbia last year. Each of those unions began with its own story and its own set of expectations for a shared life. In her view, one mistake made at the very start of a relationship can set a couple on course for failure. The counselor's advice is aimed at couples who want to catch problems before they harden.