On 4/1/2021 1:02 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 12:49:30 PM UTC-4, Graham wrote:
>> On 2021-04-01 10:33 a.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>> On 4/1/2021 10:28 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 10:14:34 AM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>> On 2021-04-01 9:56 a.m., Gary wrote:
>>>>>> On 3/31/2021 8:38 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>>>>>>> Marriage is a great institution. Unfortunately, I've read that
>>>>>>> statistically, 50% of all marriages end when one of the spouse dies.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And the other 50% of all marriages end in divorce even sooner.
>>>>>> When I was "room mother" for my daughter's 5th and 6th grade classes,
>>>>>> out of about 30 kids, only 2 still lived with their original parents.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I had a friend in my early 20s who married young but that one lasted
>>>>> only about a year. As soon as the divorce was final he was engaged, but
>>>>> that ended. He then married again. It lasted about two years. He was
>>>>> engaged to another one within months of the separation.
>>>>>
>>>>> At one point, among all our friends, only three couples were still
>>>>> married.
>>>>
>>>> My first husband is on his third or fourth wife. Apparently he didn't
>>>> learn
>>>> as much from being married to me (and my successors) as I learned from
>>>> being married to him.
>>>>
>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>
>>>
>>> There are many good reasons for divorce. I was glad my parents did when
>>> I was a teenager.
>>>
>>> I don't think I'd hook up with someone that was divorced three times
>>> though. Talk about caution flags.
>>>
>> Sometime after my divorce, I dated a woman a few times until she told me
>> about the affairs she'd had while she was married.
>
> Yeah, that's a good one.
>
> When my mother turned up pregnant, my father offered to divorce his wife and
> marry my mother. She declined. He's on his third or fourth wife, too. I think
> the current one is about my age, although the diff between 64 and 90 isn't
> as creepy as the diff between, say, 14 and 30.
>
> Cindy Hamilton
>

She made a good choice in the end.

I told my kids that if I ever re-marry their new step mom will at least
be as old as my youngest granddaughter.

My two best friends, one divorced, one a widow, have one trait we all
have in common. Don't want to marry again. A few times a year I travel
1200 miles to spend some time with one of them though. Works for us.