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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read her book when I was in my early 20s. I thought she was crazy.

Fifteen years later, I realize that there was some good advice regarding marriage, but it’s predicated on both spouses being decent people and upholding their end of the bargain. If one or both of the partners is exploiting the situation, it’s not going to work. A lot of these very conservative models for relationships are ripe for exploitation, and maybe that’s why you see a lot of bad players flocking to conservative models (or as PP put it “alpha” males and “insecure” women).

With regard to getting remarried, blending families is going to have a lot more challenges than creating the initial family. Unfortunately, we get caught up in love, or biological clocks, or fear of being alone, or the financial benefits of being remarried, or wanting to prove that we were not responsible for the failure of our past marriage, and we don’t make the best decisions for ourselves and our children—we actually usually remarry quicker than we do the first time, because we are “more mature” and “know what we want”.

Most people would be better off if they were more deliberate in choosing a spouse, but it’s especially important the second time around, once you’re blending families.[/quote]

I really agree with this. She gets so many calls from people in 2nd marriages with kids and most of the time it’s a crappy situation with no solution. The solution is not to get remarried when you have young kids, and if you do, don’t marry someone with kids and don’t make new kids with your new spouse. It creates so much pain and drama for the kids. I believe she truly does care about children and that’s why she holds many of the views that she does.[/quote]

+1 to both PPs.[/quote]

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