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Show Your Marriage Divorced Persons Stand 50 Chance on 2nd Try her increases the more he sees of other women. When he remarries her, the chances are that the marriage mar-riage will succeed. The wife, for her part may have obtained the divorce, because be-cause aha felt that marriage waa interfering with her career. When, at long last she receives the decree de-cree dissolving the bonds of matrimony matri-mony she leama, to her dismay, that ths business or professional world isn't waiting to receive her with open arms. In fact, shs sometimes some-times finds it difficult to earn a bare living. The household chores she formerly despised, now seem more attractive, while her husband is reendowed with virtues she saw when she first met him. The odds are that when such a couple are reunited, the marriage will last. The remarriages of divorced people are apt to fail if they originally separated because of serious clashes of personality and' temperament. ' When such ex-spouses ex-spouses remarry because of a persistently per-sistently strong physical attraction, attrac-tion, they usually find it just as difficult to adjust to each other end they remain aa unhappy aa they were before. By Samel a aad Esther B. Ellng Q. Are remarriages of divorced persons to each other apt to be successful? A. There's at least a 50-50 chance. Consider the case of Mr. and Mrs. D. Because they couldn't or thought they couldn't get along together, the D's got a divorce after five years of married Ufa. Soon they discovered, what others had discovered before them, that living apart wasn't too good either. After a separation of less than a year they finally concluded that living together, even with each others faults, was preferable to living alone. Remarried, they're much happier and better adjusted thaa they aver were In their first marriage. . Of course, not all remarriages of divorced persona to each other work out so welt A study of 200 cases showed that 48 were happy on the second attempt: at-tempt: 15 were doubtful, and 7 were definitely unhappy! Q. Why do divorced persona remarry re-marry each other? A. For many reasons. A husband hus-band may obtain a divorce because he found marriage too confining. Freed from his marriage fetters, however, he not Infrequently finds that the freedom he yearned for Is not as rewarding as he had imagined im-agined It would be. To his dismay he rediscovers that the average woman Is out for a good time; that she a not the least bit interested in him as a person; that she doesn't care about what he does or what ha plans to do hi ths future. Lonely and disillusioned, hs reflects that his wife wasn't such a bad sort after all. In fact, his respect for |