Adjustment to divorce
-Middle-aged women who weather divorce successfully tend to become more tolerant, comfortable with uncertainty, nonconforming, and self-reliant in personality
-Both men and women reevaluate what they consider important in a healthy relationship, placing greater weight on equal friendship and less on passionate love
-Little is known about long-term adjustment following divorce among middle-aged men, perhaps because most enter new relationships and remarry within a short time