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I asked the wife how did it happen? She said he had come to watch their daughter play tennis and all of a sudden they looked at each other and each had the same thought, what have we done? They sat at the park talking for hours and decided they had goofed up everything. She said they both felt awful for the others they had hurt, spouses, children, parents, friends.

That's a pretty amazing story! I bet the two new spouses had some issues to deal with after the sudden divorces. Do you know if the rejected spouses talked at all after your friends got back together?

I have a story that probably belongs on a Jerry Springer episode. A friend of mine was married and then divorced. He remarried a few years later. He had a girl with his new wife. After a few years, he suspected that his new wife was cheating on him. She was, with a married man. Each couple divorced. Then, they basically did a spouse swap. The cheating couple got married and my friend and the lady that was cheated on didn't get married, but lived together. The lady had two daughters and my friend had his daughter. They all lived in my friend's house. The shame of the whole thing? None of them are together today. All four are seeing other people. The kids? All completely screwed up.

No I don’t know what happened to the exs. They weren’t married very long nor did they have children with the second partners. Their own children were glad mom and dad got back together and have turned out well. All in all any way you look at it, it was a awful mess and there were people who got terribly hurt.

My husband and I are amazed at the ease with which some people marry and divorce. In college we knew a couple who had dated for all 4 years, after graduation got married but then divorced after 6 months. As for me, going on 30 years and he’s still my greatest love.