But after a disastrous marriage and a painful divorce, I'd welcomed the hardships of being a single parent and had been adamant in telling anyone who tried to fix me up that I was terminally single.
"Madonna and Guy Ritchie have agreed to divorceafter seven and a half years of marriage, their representatives confirmed today," a spokeswoman said in a statement.
该发言人在声明中称：“双方代表今日证实，麦当娜与盖?里奇已达成离婚协议，结束七年半的婚姻。”
3
The decline in marriage rates, ironically, makes it more possible to remarry afterdivorce.