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No, not too late. Your timing is off, is all. Just wait a while. Statistically at least half of them will end up divorced at some point. Just beware: the divorce rate for second marriages is 60 percent.

To be fair, I do think divorce very often (but obviously not always) tends to change a person's outlook on relationships and the opposite sex. The pain is so personal and so deep that it becomes easy to generalise the negative sentiments about your specific partner to their entire sex, for men and women alike. Someone who was sweet and open before their first marriage may not come out of the subsequent divorce the same way.

In a perfect world, divorcés and divorcées would learn from their experiences and be better mates for the next go-round. My best friend fits that description (so far), having gone into solo counseling for a period after his divorce to find out how he contributed to his marriage's demise. He's on marriage number two, and while it's been rough sailing for part of the way, he and his wife are still together. However, given the even greater failure rate of second marriages, it would seem most people don't learn from their mistakes, and just keep right on trucking the way they always have.

But of course most people don't learn from their mistakes, especially relationship mistakes. Most people are convinced they were right and the other person was all wrong. So what is their for them to learn from?

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Personally, and I know this sounds a little corny, I'm not sure where I would be without my wife by my side. We met randomly when we were 17 (on a cruise ship) and have been together ever since, through college work etc. Now we are both 30, have been married for five years and have a daughter together. I know not everyone can find someone and be happy easily, but if you are interested in living that lifestyle, do not give up!

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I'm certainly not generalizing all women with my feelings towards my ex at all.

I know what I did wrong in my 3 month marriage, I picked the wrong person to marry.

I know what I can do differently to prevent it from happening, use different evaluation criteria.

I didn't care enough about her past and kinda looked at the past as history and focused on the future. Sounds good till you find out they were seeing a Psychiatrist, stopped therapy and stopped taking their meds against their doctors advice, and went out and got married because they thought it would solve their problems. No surprise why she turned into a lunatic a few months into the marriage. Only lasted 3 months! Had I known about that, I would have run the other way.

Shy of hiring a detective or getting a professional background check, not sure how I could have prevented getting duped! It's clear now she pretended to be something she was not, and as soon as she got what she wanted, turned into the real her.

Just my luck, I get seasick.

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You figured out what was what after being married only three months. That leads me to wonder how long you had known her before getting married.

Not long enough to see the truth. She wouldn't come stay with me TILL we were married, and there are a few details that I will not air in public, but suffice to say she had a clear objective and once she got it the act was up. I'll be paying for a LONG time.

Two words: pre nup.

2 words "boating accident"

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Just kidding

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I like geralder's idea. A lot.