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Ask Dr. Helen: Dating the Divorced

May 15, 2008 - 12:30 am - by Helen Smith
John
2008-05-15 13:07:51

Humm. The woman should be sure to ask the man if the divorce is final, when the separation took place, so on and so forth. I must say that in my single years, I found it was just as important to ask women the same questions, becuase if I asked them later rather than sooner, I got surprising answers (e.g., no, the divorce isn’t final, etc.). In fact, just because I’d met and begun dating a woman who didn’t wear a ring didn’t mean she wasn’t married!! Just as a practical matter, the questions that the one writer proposes asking men should certainly be asked early in any dating relationship with either sex (starting with “are you married?”).