How many times would you consider getting married?

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Is there a line you’d draw? Like if your second marriage failed would you just think fuck it or would you actually consider having a third marriage?

My grandma was married once, when they broke up she said she’d never get married again and she didn’t. She still had another parent and had more children.

Once, perhaps 2nd but I’d like to think this is extremely unlikely

a lady I used to manage was on her 5th which baffled me as she seemed (is) a lovely normal woman. I haven’t seen her for a few years now but I believe the 5th has lasted a while. good as he was nice!

I married once at 19, divorced 4 years later. I said I wouldn't bother marrying again and I've lived with DP for 29 years now, two DS in their early 20s. We're still not married and neither of us bothered about it.

I think twice would be the maximum for me.

I have a cousin who's only in her early 30s and on her fourth or fifth marriage. She's also been engaged a few other times on top of that. Honestly I do lose track. I think she's been with this husband for a couple of years now so she's probably due a break up and fresh engagement announcement on Facebook any time now. I know that sounds nasty, but it really does seem to be the way she operates. It's her child (from one of the relationships 10 years ago) I feel sorry for.

One man in our social circle used to be 'famous' for having been divorced three times.

He has since married again (someone not in our social circle). Sigh.

My daughter's ex husband (she was his third wife) is now on no 4. How he can take his views and mean them is a joke. She's with husband no 2 but only because her 1st H left her for no 4.

I am on my 2nD marriage and would not do it again.
First husband left when I was diagnosed with MS* and I was 5 years on my own till I met hubster no 2.

If he dies or we divorce I would happily be single.

I am lucky in that my quality of life is hardly impacted, I work full time and enjoy a good life living with MS.

Vows not views.

I'm on my second marriage. First husband died after thirty years, and I'm now twenty years into my second marriage. If my second husband dies I doubt whether I'll marry again. Too many legal entanglements.

Once for me.

I can understand doing it twice if it went wrong and you were still young, but more than twice is daft.

Divorced for 10 years now
Living happily alone and single at 58
Not interested in another relationship and certainly not marriage

I've been married once (and still happily married and!) and would perhaps get married once more, but 2 would be my limit. I would only marry if the legal/financial side made sense though, because that's the only bit that matters to me, and I'd opt for the simplest ceremony possible.

It doesn't have to have gone wrong. Both my marriages have been very happy. I think it was because the first one was so good that I was willing to enter into a second one after my first husband died. Honestly, the main thing that would stop me thinking about a third if my second husband died is that either I or a prospective third husband would be rather ancient by then and there might be a lot of nursemaiding involved for one or other of us.

Once.

I haven't found a trustworthy one yet and I'm in my 50s. It's unlikely I'll find one now, even less likely I'll find more than one. 🙂

I suppose if someone was happily married and was widowed, then maybe they'd be willing to marry again.

I wouldn't marry again. If this marriage ends (my first), I won't remarry. I couldn't see the point.

My parents were early embraces of serial marriage. 7 times between them.

I didn't really recover from their behaviour until my late 20s/early 30s. I have been with DH for nearly 35 years. I love him more now than when I met him and if it hadn't worked out like that I wouldn't have done it to the children.

Twice. My first marriage ended in divorce. I’ve been with my current partner for 25 years, but would consider a civil partnership for tax reasons. We wouldn’t tell anyone.

Depends on your age I think. For me (old) never again. Perhaps when younger and more life ahead than behind I'd have thought differently.

We all have our own journeys in life. I married twice in my 20s. Both were bad decisions. I married for keeps in my 50s, could have married him in my 30s or 40s (we've been together a long time) but i thought i had "issues" with marriage so i didn't. If my husband dies, my criteria for a new partner would be higher as i now have assets to protect for my retirement yrs, but i am someone who's healthier in a relationship and wouldn't be good alone.

I had a 25 year marriage to my ex husband and a very short, nine month marriage to my second husband. I can't imagine ever being as happy as I was with him but then I don't know if I want to spend the rest of my life alone. My second marriage taught me what a good marriage can be.

Yep. Me too. Widowed, but I said (and meant) until I die.

I'm more than 28 years of my first. If for any reason my marriage ended, I'd probably never want to live with a man again. I love the bones of this one, it's once in a lifetime for me.

Once only.

Once for me, twice for other people.
3 sounds too much!!!

Married and divorced twice. I'd never say never. The right person might come along, you never know. I'd never judge anyone for how often they got married.

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I have a good number of single friends of my age who feel the same way I do. More do than don't, frankly. Not to say some of them have completely ruled out a 'special companion' at some point, just that they'd never live with or marry them.

Each to her own taste said the old woman as she kissed the cow.