Hello, Rob —

Let’s see…I think the answer to your question is alluded to in the intro. This piece was written because a friend of mine — a divorced man — was struggling in dating. He would meet divorced women, but when some of them learned he was not interested in getting married ever again, they wouldn’t continue dating him because some of them were interested in getting married again. This was confusing to him because he thought that they, like him, would be disenchanted with marriage since they, too, had suffered from a divorce. He couldn’t understand why these divorced women might possibly want to get married again. I’ve heard other divorced men express surprise over this as well. I wrote this to help him — and other divorced men who might share his confusion and frustration — understand some of the reasons why some divorced women may still want to get married despite having gone through the ringer of divorce. Though he may not agree with the reasons, it at last helped him to know what the reasons were. Plus, some divorced men that I know have speculated that the reasons a divorced woman might want to get re-married had to do with a desire to gain financial benefits from being married. I hoped to help them learn that there are other reasons a divorced woman might want to get re-married. I hope that answers your question. Thank you for reading!

— Lee