Later, love may keep or loose its passion, may gain or loose commitment, may retain its positive intimacy, fade away, or become a hotbed of smoldering resentment. Love is also paradoxical. Like most things that give us great joy, love can also cause us great pain. We often hurt the people we love. And, although the threat of pain shouldn't stop us from loving, it does sometimes.
Remarriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
More than half of all children live with a step or a single parent. Not only are the actors different, but the roles have changed in the last 30 years too. We have fewer children, so mom and dad's relationship with each other is more important and more intimate. When there were eight or ten children, mom was very busy with house work and child care, and dad had to work long hours to earn the money. Marriage was for survival.