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"Men and women don't go together - except in the middle." A German friend recently told me that.
I'm not sure that this really describes the complicated chemistry of a heterosexual couple relationship.
A marriage can be as confused as the German tax system and a divorce as complex and lengthy as Brexit.
I have always hesitated to go into more detail about marriage and its termination in any of our columns.
I didn't want to interfere too much in the private affairs of Germans and I didn't want to be misunderstood.
But I am confronted with this topic more and more often.
Currently through reports from our circle of friends.
I am happily married and I mean it.
And when you speak theoretically about other people's problems, there is a saying in Syria: "He who has hands in the fire feels something different than a person with his hands in cold water." It is not easy to get through a topic with confidence to maneuver when you are not directly affected.
We want to try anyway.
Perhaps it can contribute a little to transparency and tolerance if you name different points of view.
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