"Grass Is Not Greener": 30 People Who Divorced And Then Remarried Their Ex Share What Happened

I got married to my husband when I was 24. We were happily married for 5 years and had a child together.

One day, I got a text message from some random a*****e telling me that my husband was having an affair. (He actually wasn't, but that's irrelevant) Combining that string of texts with the fact that I had a significant crush on a coworker and a belief that I could have a "deeper relationship" .... and divorce ensued.

We both dated/slept around. I had a boyfriend for over a year that I was pretty serious with. But nobody I dated lived up to my expectations. Sure they were nice, intelligent, successful, whatever, but they weren't him. He'd set the bar too high. He was the man who loved me completely and would do anything for me. Literally, anything.

Example:

"Husband, will you bring me home some tweezers after work? I've lost the 9 million tweezers I have at the house"

"Of course I will baby, and I'll find 3 pairs in 5 minutes when I get home because you struggle."

.... And then he brings me home a new pair and does proceed to find me 3 pairs of my lost tweezers too, with all smiles and jokes.

I finally realized that everything I wanted was right in front of me. It took a long time, I was stubborn, prideful, and we had both built a lot of walls. But three years later, we started dating again.

We've now been back together for over a year, and I've never been happier. I've never been more grateful. More proud. More loving and loyal. I thank God (even though I don't believe in a God) every day that I get with him now. Time seems shorter now.

And while we aren't technically "remarried" yet, we will be eventually, but for tax purposes, we haven't gotten remarried yet.

TLDR: My husband and I were both immature a******s, and we divorced for stupid reasons. A few years, and a lot of random sex and tinder dates later, we realized what we needed and wanted was right in front of our faces.

My grandparents got remarried after 25 years. They had my mom when they were only 16, got divorced a few years later. Grandma remarried 3 other people, then they end up back together. I think they just wanted company and settled tbh. They aren’t loving towards each other at all.

My mom and dad got married right out of high school and had my brother. They divorced because my dad couldn't keep it in his pants. Somehow he talked my mom into getting remarried and they had my other brother then me. They divorced again when I was two. A few years later my dad almost talked my Mom into getting married AGAIN but she found out his girlfriend was pregnant with my sister. So she told him to finally do the right thing and make a family with his gf.

My parents did that.

Bitter divorce, drawn out custody battle... Nightmares all around. Almost 30 years later, they got remarried and stayed that way until my mom passed away. They were married in 1964 when my mom was 16 and my dad was 21.

They came from completely different backgrounds (Mom was Native, grew up very poor in a rural area with alcoholic parents; dad was a spoiled Mama's boy, but had a strict German father, and both my grandparents really disliked my mom for years and years) and still loved each other enough to try again regardless of the hell they'd put each other through during the divorce.

My dad and former stepdad became friends, and they hang out every night just working on cars and playing cards. So weird.

My parents got divorced when i was 14. My mother is toxic, cheated on him for years and lied about who my genetic father is.

My dad, lovely guy but man, i dont know why he keeps going back. Without fail every time my Dad is single, he goes back to her. I know they stay in contact too.

Its f****d up! He will defend her to the ends of the earth, and he's a worse person when hes with her. Ive cut her out and im Low contact with him.

My grandparents were married, had my mom, then he got sent to jail, so she divorced him and got married to my other grandpa (N for ease of sorry telling)

My blood grandpa (R), got out of jail and became a bit of a nomad, gambling and fighting his way South. Got into some bad moonshine at a card game and almost died. He woke up with little-to-no memory of his previous life, and was told he had a wife up north. So he came back to Michigan to try to find her.

Meanwhile, Grandma and Grandpa N had 4 more kids, but they were unhappy, and would often separate or skip town, leaving my mom and siblings with N or with her mom.

When Grandpa R showed up Grandma remarried him, and left mom with Grandpa N.

About 20 years later I was born and my mom rekindled her relationship with Grandma and basically met Grandpa R. I got to grow up with three grandpas, sadly all three have now passed. Out of the three, Grandpa R was the most loving and was a good role model for me growing up.

My parents got divorced when I was a kid, after my dad went to jail. Then they remarried a couple years later, I think mainly for financial/health insurance reasons ... then spent another couple decades making each other miserable, with occasional short separations.

Now they're getting legally separated or possibly divorced again and my dad just moved out. It's fairly amicable this time, and they get along *so* much better when they don't live together, so I'm happy with this last development.

My parents divorced when I was like 4, and my mom remarried. They divorced when I was 12. When I was about 20 my parents got remarried to each other, for practical purposes which I don't entirely understand, but it has to do with my dad's really good free healthcare and my mom didn't have any, but mostly because my brother is disabled and if one of them died it would be easier for my brother to be taken care of if they had been married. I'm not sure of the details and I didnt approve of the marriage.

It was only supposed to be on paper but somehow 15 years later they live together and have separate bedrooms and snipe at each other all the time. I guess I'm glad that they're taking care of each other, and they're not romantically involved but they both seem fine with the situation and it works, financially.

They're both retired and just hang out watching TV in different rooms lol

My mom finally divorced my dad when three of the four of us had moved out, and my youngest sibling, in high school at the time, was mature enough (in my mom's correct estimation) to handle the split. She reconnected with a childhood friend, fell in love, and married him. Turns out he was off the deep end, emotionally abused her for years, then [offed] himself. My dad had always wanted my mom back, and they basically remarried for necessary financial and health care reasons. Neither are happy with it, but at least they're familiar with each other.

My friend’s parents: Getting drunk at a party led to one-night stand. Resulting pregnancy led to marriage. Had second kid a year later, but divorced a couple years after that as they really detested each other.

Mom took the kids and moved far from Dad—back to her home country—met new guy, and married him. Many years passed, and Mom became more and more religious. She felt guilty that she was “living in sin” with second husband as her church (Catholic) taught that she was still married to first husband in “the eyes of God”. She told her husband that she needed to divorce him and return to her “real husband”.

She returned to her ex-husband, said, “In the eyes of God, we’re still married, so the kids and I are moving back in.” He had missed the kids, so he agreed. They had separate bedrooms, and lived separate lives. They only shared the house and the children. After the children were grown and moved away, they finally legally remarried (only for legal and financial reasons in retirement) but then lived in different countries from each other as retirees.

**TL;DR:** Church told them were still married, so they lived together while detesting each other.