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From the New York Times and WBUR Boston, this is Modern Love.

Stories of Love, loss and redemption. I'm your host, Megna Chacrabardi.

Guy meets Girl. They fall in love and get married. Sounds familiar, right? But then they fight, drift apart, get divorced, and move on with their lives.

What happens then?

Mary Elizabeth Williams told the rest of her story to Modern Love.

Here's Cheryl Strade, co-host of WBUR's Dear Sugar Podcast, and author of the best-selling memoir Wilde, Reading Mary Elizabeth's Story, a second embrace with hearts and eyes open.

I looked across the table at my date, an attractive brown eyed man with two young children in a broken marriage, as he recounted his romantic history.

I used to think the relationship part of my life was saddled and I never had to worry about it, he told me.

Now I think, if you love someone, you have to take it one day at a time, and you have to work at it one day at a time.

There was a hopeful gleam in his eye. I smiled and thought, I could be in a relationship with a man like this.

In fact, I knew I could. I had married him.

On this night, long after we had thrown in the towel on us, here we were again, crawling back into the ring.

This time though, it would be different. We just never imagined how different it would become, or how quickly.

Our unraveling had not been a swift, decisive catastrophe, but a series of smaller, no less destructive forces.

We came apart the way many couples do, through the gradual realization that we were unhappy, and the conclusion that our relationship was not a refuge from our unhappiness, but a cause of it.

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