Why We Keep Trying Anyway A woman in her late thirties stands in front of a justice of the peace for the second time. She knows the odds. Sixty percent of marriages like this one end in divorce, worse than the 41 percent shot she had the first time. Nobody hands her that statistic at the altar, but she's read it, because women like her read everything before they sign anything. She signs on the dotted line, because that's what ink is for, to seal contracts that are meant to l