I had a lovely lunch this week with an old friend, Alix, who’s divorced and remarried. As girls will do, we turned the conversation to the personal. “Marriage,” Alix commented, “has become a throwaway. People just seem to toss it aside when it doesn’t work for them anymore.” But as a therapist (and divorcée), I’ve found quite the opposite to be true. Most thoughtful, caring people think very long and very hard before they pull the plug on their marriages.

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