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Five Ways to Start ‘Divorce-Proofing’ Your Marriage

My husband and I got divorced before we got married. Well, not really but we had a tumultuous dating relationship that culminated in a broken engagement and two years of non-communication. So when we announced our second engagement (three years later), neither of us were surprised when our skeptical friends predicted, “You guys are going to have a tough first year of marriage.”Their dire warning did not come true but did amplify our anxiety each time we had a fight. (The first one happened nine