Learning From Divorce: How to Maintain a Healthy Marriage After a Failed One

Between me, my mother and my father, we have racked up a whopping seven divorces — all of them before anyone turned 40 years old.

Two of them are mine.

My parents scandalized the upper-middle class suburb of Great Neck, Long Island when they dropped out of high school, got married and had two children — all before the age of 20. If that wasn’t a recipe for a disastrous marriage, add to it that my young father was a drug addict.

Yes, conventional wisdom can be right: teenagers should be in school. Not playing house. And marriage to a substance abuser is an uphill battle and you will never come first. Chances of divorce are pretty high.

With all of my family’s instability, it’s no wonder I gravitated toward the world of make believe and acting. I became a professional actress at the age of 14 and developed crushes on every father figure I encountered. And there were a lot of them.

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