The majority of people who divorce after the age of 50 have something in common: They stay single. That’s true for 62 percent of the men and a whopping 77 percent of the women (discussed more here at Living Single). Some want to remarry but never find a suitable partner. Others, though, after getting beyond an initial post-divorce period that may be quite painful, find that they love their single lives.

In surveys that ask people who are not married if they want to be married, the people least likely to say yes are those who have already been married. Maybe they have already learned by experience that marriage was not exactly the happily-ever-after bliss that they were promised. But in the life stories that were shared with me for my Single at Heart book, I found that even some people who did have profoundly fulfilling marriages discovered that they........

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