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Listen Again: Heartache

TED Radio Hour

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You Should Always Marry Your Second Husband First

gene sook: You're sort of saying you should decide with your partner before you even get close to being in a position where the law might decide for you. I feel i would not be doing my journalistic duty if i didn't point out that, not only are you a family law expert, but that you are also divorced. And then i got remarried, and one of the lines that i quote is something that someone once told me, which is, you should always marry your second husband first. The important thing that i draw is not that you you can only meet the man of your dreams or the woman of your dreams the second time,. But rather that the mindfulness about what

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That might seem incredibly unfair. And in in andy's mind, if if a different rule were to pertain, he would think, hey, i made all that money and we were able to make mortgage payments. So that it would seem unfair to him if somehow now the inheritance that went into the down payment, like got separated out and given to lisa. So there is a lot of potential for strife, for resentment and for a feeling of being grieved. You're sort of saying
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you should decide with your partner before you even get close to being in a position where the law might decide for you.
Speaker 1
That is exactly what i'm saying, gene. I feel i would not be doing my journalistic
Speaker 2
duty if i didn't point out that, not only are you a family law expert, but that you are also divorced.
Speaker 1
More go. And then i got remarried, and in my tut talk, one of the lines that i quote is something that someone once told me, which is, you should always marry your second husband first. And the important thing that i draw is not that you you can only meet the man of your dreams or the woman of your dreams the second time, but rather that the mindfulness about what a marriage is, the sacrifices that are exchanged, all of those principles become more more easy to think about once one has been through a divorce. And i would really like to
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gene sook.

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