Life is about second chances and so are second marriages. It is often said that second marriages work better because people don’t make the same mistakes they made in the first marriage. Second marriage success stories are more. A just-married couple in their 40s gave up smoking so that they could be healthy and have a better life together. In second marriages people are ever grateful for a second chance from life so they make the extra effort to make the marriage work.
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People are also reluctant to move out of a second marriage because they have already dealt with the emotional stress of the breakdown of the first marriage. So there is a chance for second marriages to get more toxic. Bonobology presents both sides of the second marriage story. But second marriage also has its flip side. A second marriage carries the emotional baggage from the first marriage, sometimes there is interference from the ex and sometimes the children involved become a complicated issue. People often struggle more in a second marriage.
