Would you remarry the one you once divorced?

There are two views about remarrying the one you once married and then divorced. Subscribe now for unlimited access . Login or signup to continue reading $ 0 / $ NaN /year All articles from our website & app The digital version of Today's Paper Breaking news alerts direct to your inbox Interactive Crosswords, Sudoku and Trivia All articles from the other regional websites in your area Continue In my experience, people either say: "How lovely.

I can quite understand." Or they say something like: "I'd rather marry a brown snake and have wasp sandwiches at the reception." I say "in my experience" because on Friday I remarried the woman I had previously married 31 years earlier.

We first wed on May 21, 1993 and then again on August 16, 2024, with a divorce and a lot of pain in between. I remarried and re-divorced - to return to the woman I had never stopped loving. Male foolishness was the cause of the division and diversion.

In the process, I realised remarrying a previous spouse is not as uncommon as you might think. Several people told me they knew someone who had done it - though some did say: "I won't be having that snake back." There are big names who've done it, of course - Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Hogan, Elon Musk, all ending in a second divorce.

But they lived in an artificial world of money and show business so few conclusions can be drawn. But it's more common among the common people than you might think. Ken and Dee Willimott got married in Canberra i.