With the divorce rate in Australia nearing 43%, re-partnering (and often re-marrying) is now very much the norm. In the 1960s, the baby-boomer generation frequently married in their early twenties; today, young people are often nearer thirty before they are ready to tie the knot. Many will have lived together before marriage, thereby getting to know their partner on both good days and bad. This is very different to those of us who married young first time around, often within a couple of years of leaving school; we had very little understanding of our own emotional life, much less that … Continue reading Re-partnering