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.

Yeah, it would make me wonder too. Don and I will be the 'one of us
died' set.