With the divorce rate in the United States hovering between 30 percent and 50 percent, it's not surprising that there are an awful lot of midlifers questioning their broken relationships while trying to figure out where they went wrong so that they might do things differently the next time around.
One study of married couples could help. Terri Orbuch, author of "Finding Love Again: 6 Simple Steps to a New and Happy Relationship," has been following 373 couples since their marriages in 1986. The therapist and professor of sociology at Oakland University recently analyzed data on those couples in the study who divorced -- 46 percent -- and the 71 percent of those who went on to remarry or develop long-term relationships. She's released her findings from the study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, to highlight what behaviors have a significant impact on whether or not a divorced person will find a new love.
"There were many surprising things that came out of this study but one was that those divorced singles who felt emotionally neutral about their ex -- they weren't pining away or angry -- were almost two times more likely to find new love again," Orbuch told Huff/Post50. "These were people who didn't feel much of anything at all towards their ex-spouses ... they were able to meet someone again."
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