From wanting to honour a new love with the same public commitment, to avoiding visa and estate issues, readers tell us why they chose to say ‘I do’, again
nce upon a time, a misstep down the aisle was a life sentence. But since no-fault divorce laws were introduced in Australia nearly 50 years ago, couples have been free to end ill-fated unions then toll those wedding bells again.
I married my first boyfriend when I was just 21, but inevitably the relationship, which started when we were still legally children, couldn’t grow with us into adulthood. Hardly surprising. Ending the relationship was necessary so we could both secure far more functional, happy and satisfying partnerships as adults.
I never wanted to be married again, until I met my current wife. I’ve always believed that a marriage doesn’t fix a bad relationship and you don’t need marriage to have a great relationship. But she and I share such common ideas around how relationships should work, it was easy to try again. My husband is as interesting and delightful as he was when I knew him in Cambridge. I still find him as outrageously attractive as I did in 1970.