To feel this sense of skepticism is only normal after your experiences.
The unclear statistics on second marriages.
It’s hard to say.
Some experts say the number of marriages that end in divorce may becloser to 40 percentnow.
BGSU foundjust 16 divorcesper 1,000 married women in 2017.
Remarriage seems to be just about as popular as marriage in general these days.
Doeitherof these things work?
Why second marriages failand what sets apart the ones that work.
“It all depends.
Did people leave their first marriages blaming the other, thinking it was all the other person’s fault?
Did they learn anything?
“It all comes down to the circumstances of how theyleft the first marriageor how they managed being left.
Carroll and Paul both stress that having this recognition isabsolutely necessaryfor any new commitment to work.
In that case, it doesn’t look so great for their chances of success,” Carroll says.
So what does this all mean for the divorced person considering the potential of a second marriage?