Stanley Tucci isn’t a huge gossip guy, but I like to write about him every so often. He’s an onscreen chameleon and a mostly private guy. Stanley, 54, is married to Felicity Blunt (sister of Emily), 33. They secretly wed in 2012 and welcomed a baby boy in January. They named him Matteo Oliver Tucci, which is a little formal. Maybe they simply call him Oliver. At the time, Stanley joked, “I believe he is mine. We are all thrilled to welcome him to this cold, cruel world.”
Stanley’s recent interview with the Sunday Times is a bit dated by now, but excerpts are starting to surface from the subscription piece. The interesting part is where he talks about moving on after his first wife’s death. Kathyrn Tucci died from breast cancer in 2009. She and Stanley were married for 14 years, and Stanley thought he’d never find happiness again. Then he met Felicity. They fell in love, hard and fast, and dated for about a year before Stanley proposed. Then he almost immediately “felt guilty.” Some excerpts:
On remarrying: “It was very hard to go on vacations at first, really hard to go with Felicity someplace. I felt guilty. It’s horrible. You always feel guilty. There are photographs (of Kathryn) around at home … Not that many, but I would have difficulty. And especially when we first met it was only two years after Kate died. So…”
On Felicity’s British vibe: “Well, English women are a bit more relaxed than Americans. You do swear and drink more, but I like that. I find that very attractive.”
On moving to England “People here are just shocked. They are like, ‘Why did you move here? The weather?’ But I am so comfortable here. I didn’t want to continue living in Westchester [New York]. Once my wife passed away, I was there by myself and what was I doing? To me, this was the healthier option.”
[From The Sunday Times
Male celebrities seldom reveal such personal details about their family life, but Stanley’s widower experience is a valuable one to reveal. I don’t doubt that the adjustment period was difficult for his new wife. She probably felt like she was living in Kathryn’s shadow at first. I’ve read in many places that widowers often remarry much sooner than widows do. Men get used to being married and miss the experience. Stanley and Felicity seem to have found happiness together, and I wish them well.
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God I love him
I’m confused. Wasn’t he seriously involved with Edie Falco? Did the relationship with her come while Katherine, his first wife, was living? Were they separated at the time? Either way…considering he’s had if not an open marriage then one in which he freely stepped out on her, positioning this piece as a guy who’s finally brave enough to move on with a new love seems out of place. Apparently Stanley had several new loves while married to Katherine.
He had an affair with Edie,he broke with his wife and he came back with his wife and broke with Edie when she was ill
I was going to type “What a class act, I love this guy!” but after reading what DKMIF posted…ummm not so much…
Didn’t Edie also get cancer?
I remember thinking the way the events unfolded was a little different (or, well, somewhat weird) from the usual husband goes back to wife after realizing he made a mistake. Both women became ill and it seemed as though he had to make a choice between one ill lady over the other ill one. Maybe I’m misremembering though.
Yes I remember there was news that they separated and he was dating Edie Falco. They went to the Emmys together. After that you didn’t hear much until word got out that he and Falco broke up. Then there was a short article about his wife’s death and their reconciliation. To be honest, no one really knew he and the wife got back together or her illness until after the fact. He’s that private.
I genuinely like him. I think that separation and dating part was a lapse in judgment on his part but overall he’s very devoted to his wife and kids.
I read his and Felicity’s cookbook (note read, didn’t try any of the recipes because they were too advanced for me!). There were segments where they talked about their family and Kate. My impression hasn’t changed of him.
Yep. I just fell in love.
They were indeed separated at the time. They got together when his wife was diagnosed.
Me too!
He’s a wonderful actor and seems like he’s a genuinely decent guy.
I loved him as Cesar Flickerman, I really did.
Uh, hm. Reading the above narrative (re: Edie Falco) makes me feel the urge to amend my original comment.
To wit: I loved him as Cesar Flickerman, I really did. He’s a wonderful actor.
Full stop.
The only thing I ever remember about him gossip-wise is that he left his sick wife for Edie Falco. They started an affair while working together and stayed together a short time. He left Edie and went back to his wife before she died. I’m pretty sure that’s how it went down but it was years ago.
That’s what I remember too. So I was perplexed (a-ha!) that he’d feel guilty about remarrying after her death, but not feel guilty about cheating on her.
+1
Yeah a real puff piece article. He’s no saint. Even so, I don’t think his marriage was an easy one, yet he stood by her despite his desire to leave. Of course, he is sad that she passed. She was the mother of children. But affecting his current relationship–doubtful. That part is s joke.
Maybe he wasn’t trying to apologize for any of his actions. Maybe he was just explaining his state of mind. Makes sense to me; major events in ones life are bound to make one reflect and question not just one decision but all of them as a whole.
Thanks for bringing that up – I was really confused about Bedhead’s comment: the ONLY thing I know about him is that he left his sick wife for Edie Falco, then dumped Edie Falco and went back to his wife before she died. So, not great. As an actor though I love him.
I remember this too. I’m not sure if his wife was sick when he left her, but he did carry on an affair with Falco.
I never heard this, is it totally legit/true? I read this Times interview when it came out, he was very open about how weird it was to have another kid when he never expected to and seemed genuinely saddened by losing his first wife. But cancer causes many marriages to break up, maybe the strain led to a blip and he realized he loved his wife after all. It sounds like she took him back anyway so who’s to know what really went on. I’m glad he’s happy now, anyway.
My husband’s cancer diagnosis made our marriage much better than it had ever been. He finally let his walls drop. He died just over 9 years ago. I’ve had a couple of relationships which haven’t lasted. It would be wonderful to remarry.
My brother died of cancer two months ago. I know he and his wife grew closer during the diagnosis and three years that followed. They knew their time was limited and it made everything else that seemed important trivial.
My sister-in-law is only 40 years old. I know my whole family would welcome her finding love and happiness and hopefully remarrying some time in the future.
IMDb says (in the trivia section)– “Stanley and his wife Kate legally separated in February 2003. In 2005, they reconciled when she discovered she had breast cancer. They stayed married until her death in 2009. Was in a relationship with Edie Falco from April 2003 until March 2004.”
They were in a Broadway show together in 2002 and that’s when they started their affair. I’m pretty sure they tried to clean up the timeline but in reality, there was overlap. I uncomfortable with the “brave” Stanley Tucci story that’s trying to be sold.
WOW WOW WOW where was I hiding that I Missed This??!! That’s crazy … and shitty
She didn’t have cancer when they separated. There was some overlap with Edie but it seemed that they’d been unofficially separated for a while before they were officially separated so it was likely overlap in name only iyswim. He went back to Kathryn when she was diagnosed and they really seemed strong after that.
But whatever the situation was it’s perfectly possible that they had a messy relationship wherein he behaved poorly, and that at the same time he loved her deeply and had great trouble moving on after she died. It’s not like he got remarried a couple of months after she died, and he did seem genuinely distraught and a little lost for a while there.
Yes all you had to do is watch the View interview where Hasselbeck asked him what his wife thought of his role in “These Lovely Bones.” I think she had just passed several months ago and he looked pained when he explained his wife died so he didn’t know what she thought.
Relationships are complicated. I don’t know why they separated but what counted was he was there for her until the end.
And there was this story too about him harassing Anne Hathaway: http://www.celebitchy.com/1744/stanley_tucci_is_a_creep/
Ugh… That story. I just never got his appeal. Back to the Edie Falco affair, I remember her getting so much crap at the time and he got off a little easier.
@launicaangelina:
Well, you know how it goes: it’s always the woman’s fault and the man isn’t to blame. Unfair but that’s how it plays out.
I love this man. Always enjoy him in any role. He’s such a versatile actor.
You could write about him every day so far as I am concerned. My perfect older man!
BTW – if a Sky series, Fortitude, ever comes your way stateside, do watch. It has Tucci, Christopher Eccleston, Sofie Grabol, mammoths, murders, glaciers and all sorts. It’s great so far.
Sixer – It’s available to us on Amazon but we have to pay per episode for it. I’m hoping it will be added to the Prime category so I can watch it for free with my membership.
It’s actually a show that was developed for the new channel Pivot. I don’t think many people get this channel, but I think it’s more available on Dish than cable. If you have Dish On Demand, you should be able to find it that way.
Yes, Fortitude is amazing- also, Michael Gambon! I live in the US & I don’t have Pivot (co-produces with Sky?), but the show is on-demand (Comcast) for me- I feel like I found a hidden treasure. If you like UK cop shows/Nordic noir and/or Twin Peaks, it’s a must watch. So creepy & twisty, but gorgeous. Stanley does sound like he has done some timeline fiddling- wonder what Edie would think? Anne H- really? I guess he does deserve kudos for gong back to the wife when she was ill- it all sounds like a one of those truth stranger the fiction situations.
Oh, Gambon is great in it, isn’t he? It’s definitely worth watching. Great cast, great plot, great production values. Something’s a bit off with the editing, I think, but it’s a top class show.
Yeah- it can be a confusing watch at times- while some of the confusion is purposeful (for misdirection, interesting plot), I find myself rewinding a lot…still love it!
The show had me at Eccleston (my husband, calling dibs), but the rest of the cast and the storyline are FANTASTIC. I hadn’t watched Pivot before (how we got it on my boondocks cable system blows my mind), but it’s a great channel.
Tucci won me over forever with “The Big Night”. God, that movie is brilliant.
I’ve told my husband during a couple of serious talks that if anything ever happened to me, I wouldn’t want him to spend the rest of his life in misery and loneliness. I would want him to deal with his feelings, but then to try to find someone else to love. If he loves her, and she makes him happy, wherever I am, I’ll love her, too.
Yes, that makes perfect sense to me. I have two friends who have lost their husbands suddenly in the past two years, though, and they say they will never remarry, can’t even begin to think about it. They are only in their mid-40s so I’m thinking they may eventually heal from their terrible grief and be able to consider it. I’m sure their beloved departed husbands would want only happiness for them, too.
It’s the same thing I tell my husband – “grieve for me if you must, but the best tribute for what we’ve had would be for you to embrace life and move on, be happy.”
You guys are way too mature. If I were to die I’d want my significant other to weep themselves to death like in one of those sad dog still waiting for owner stories.
It is very thoughtful and mature. But Please make sure your husbands also tell you that it is ok for you to move on should they pass away first. Not being bitchy, just making sure everybody is covered with the same policy.
Yes, he says the same to me. He also says he would not remarry. But I just wanted him to know it was ok with me, if it ever comes up. I wouldn’t want him to feel like he was betraying me. I don’t think I would remarry if anything happened to him. I can’t imagine that I would accept anything less or find anything equal. But you never know what life will bring.
I’m with you, Bea!
I once felt the same way, like my husband and I’s love was so special, we could never find another, but that all changes in an instant when you know you might actually die soon. When I got cancer (in remission for 11 yrs now spit spit), I stopped thinking that way completely. I was young, he was young, I never would have wanted him to be alone or unhappy for long. Spouses of cancer patients suffer just as much if not more in their own way.
It’s weird because I just watched a documentary about John Cazale today, he was Fredo in The Godfather, etc., and died very young (42) of cancer. Meryl Streep was his girlfriend and was by all accounts by his side until the end – yet she gets lots of flack for marrying her husband within a year of Cazale’s death. You can see in this documentary how deeply she still feels for Cazale, her eyes are just shimmering with pain throughout. I totally get why people need to replace grief with love. What is the point of suffering for years on end, your loved one would not want that, trust me.
Men tend to remarry sooner and more often than women do. They seem to have a difficult time being alone after being with someone for so long. Women also tend to have a better network of friends to be with when widowed. While I don’t respect the way he cheated on his late wife, I’m glad that he’s found happiness with Felicity and someone to love. I hope he stays faithful to her.
“Women mourn. Men replace.”
My husband has been very upfront in telling me if something happens to him, he would not want me to remarry – at least for ten years!! Even better, never at all. He said the thought upsets him too much.
Hopefully that situation will never arise and we will both live healthy lives into our nineties.
I have little children so I would worry who my husband would marry beyond someone who makes him happy. I hope he picks a woman that would be wonderful to my boys and truly treat them like her own because she would be the only mother they have with me gone.
I simply adore this man.
**Love** him. He moved to England for his wife! Honors and respects his first wife, while loving and respecting his second wife. And I love his son’s name. So sick of poor babies being named Rocket and Peanut. They’re not dogs and they grow up and have to keep these stupid names.
“Men get used to being married and miss the experience”. Riiiiight. The ones who can’t take care of themselves. In all fairness, their wives prolly helped them in that department. And as far as guilt…would you wish that on your surviving spouse? I remember those Edie Falco stories too.
I found that quote so odd. It manages to diminish the love husbands had for their deceased wife, and the new love they have for their second wife.
Can I just say I love the name Matteo?
I do, too.
My son’s name is Matteo, I don’t see it as a formal name at all.
I agree. I found Bedhead’s comment about their child’s name strange and judgemental. It isn’t formal at all and if they have named him Matteo Oliver Tucci, why would they refer to him by his second name and call him Oliver as Bedhead suggested? His name is Matteo and that is more than likely what they call him.
Isn’t it a variation on Matthew? I like it, too.
Love the name Matteo, and was a little taken aback that Bedhead would suggest it’s too formal to be a usable name.
I think it’s strange how certain celebrities are given a pass for doing what would get other celebs burned at the stake for. I am absolutely willing to see the nuances and complexities of love that would explain Tucci’s journey.
But I also know none of this would be tolerated if it were Ben Affleck or Brad Pitt.
It’s a decade later and Brad still gets attacked by random mobs of middleaged women who aren’t over his personal life..and go on like his age-old divorce was a personal affront to them. Funny.
Amen- and, over ten years later, there isn’t even any proof that Brad ever cheated- just millions of Aniston’s PR dollars invested into a decade long victim fest/pity party/fake triangle creation that will never end, as this past awards season proved. There is some video of Ben with the stripper(s), I think.
To be fair, whatever happened with the affair, Tucci and his wife reconciled and stayed together through her illness and until her passing. So it’s not quite the same as Brad leaving his wife for another woman, forever, “circumstantial” (cough) as it may have been.
I moved to Engkand for my husband hope he kept his NY place after a few years of rain and clouds and summers where it’s 4 weeks and 72 he might want to escape lol
I love him in Fortitude.
I read an interview with him maybe a year ago and he adores England. He says people complain about the weather, but he loves how it will be raining, the sun comes out, and then goes back to raining. He loves the city and all the theater life and things to do. His kids adore it. He was basically saying he barely misses anything about America except his parents. He loves where they live and buying fresh vegetables every day and cooking. He’s a foodie and wrote a cookbook and loves to cook. He went into a lot of detail on why he loves living there.
Love me some Stanley, always have. Glad he’s finding happiness.
Cancer is a beast, my 9 year old sons best friend lost his mom recently to brain cancer. His father is already engaged again, it hasn’t even been 6 months. It’s so bizarre to me, but I’m trying not to judge.
My husband was engaged to a woman with cystic fibrosis. She passed away while they were together.
It was very hard to start our relationship and marriage, so many fears and doubts. Luckily we pushed through it and our marriage is strong and healthy. Been married over 5 years now.
But there is no way to describe how hard it is to be in a relationship with that history. If we didn’t already have a strong friendship before dating, there’s no way we would have made it through.
Audrey, have you read Emily Yoffe’s essay about her husband’s first wife, who passed away from cancer? It’s called “My Husband’s Other Wife.” It’s so touching and also she addresses feelings that I’m sure you felt.
Firstly, i’m always shocked that he isn’t gay. Don’t know why, but he reads gay to me.
Secondly, his wife could pass for 40s. I’m genuinely shocked that she’s 30something, early 30something at that.
I’ve always gotten a gay vibe from him, too, so reading about him and all these women seems strange to me.
I thought he was gay, too. I guess he played someone gay in a movie and he did such a good job I thought it was true.
I can’t tell what her age is from looking at her, but whenever someone is in their 50s I assume the wife is in the same age range. And that might colour my perception of how old the wife looks…which is probably why the idea of marrying an older man has never appealed to me. I picture myself aging overnight with an older man…
He should feel more guilty for cheating on his wife when she was alive, not remarrying after her death.
Agree. Plus, good actor or not, there’s something about him that makes me feel uncomfortable–like a bad vibe you can’t put your finger on.
As mentioned above by some he did leave his wife for Edie years ago. He worked with Edie Falco in a play in 2002 where they were passionate lovers and it carried over into real life. They started an affair during the play and then eventually he left his wife for Edie in 2003. At the time his children were three-year-old twins and also a one-year-old. He was seen everywhere with Edie and in love and then about a year after he left his wife, either Edie dumped him, as was written, or he dumped her to go back to his wife. Who knows. But in 2004, he went back to his wife and they worked it out. They were back together, and then she was diagnosed with breast cancer in somewhere around 2006, which she battled for three years I think he said once. She died in 2009.
Stanley seemed to have been really involved in her cancer treatment and really believed she would beat the cancer, even though it was late stage. It was very sad reading an interview of him not long after she died, trying to come to terms with losing her.
That’s really sad. I’m disappointed that he would cheat. I always thought he seemed really nice.
ok wait….I’m confused. So his 3 kids are teenagers now? (twins born in 2000 and then another child born in 2002.) But…. he moved to England because he was “all alone?” Well, maybe they are away in boarding school. So their mom died when they were very young and now their dad moved to England to be with his new hot much younger wife and now a new baby so he doesn’t have to be alone.
His three children moved to England with him. He moved to England because his soon-to-be new wife was in England and that’s where her career is, and it was a change that was maybe good for him with all the sad memories in NY anyway. He probably meant alone in the sense of without his wife.
He has stated in an interview last year that his new wife is really good to his children and stepped into a hard situation, a widower with three children, but she is very thoughtful with them, even suggesting some of their mom’s recipes be put in his cookbook. And that it helped because they knew her sister, Emily Blount, so not like a complete stranger coming into their lives with Emily around also. He said the kids really love England.
Children are not appropriate adult companionship. I adore my boys, but were something to happen to my husband I would consider myself – as an adult – alone. It’s not fair to put that kind of pressure on kids, especially when they are processing their own grief.
As sad as the topic is, this sort of interview question/answer is so refreshing.
It’s a subject that is real, and important, and Tucci seems honest about it all.
The facts about widows, widowers and remarriage are interesting. I never thought about it before, but I can totally see a married man missing that life if he becomes and widower.
On a different note, he’s a good example of “aging well”. He looks good, and not like he’s trying to look 25. I’d “date” him!
I don’t believe in judging people too harshly for what happened in a marriage. Really, the only people who know what went down were those involved. And he reconciled and stayed with his wife through her battle with cancer. He was with her through one of the worst things that could happen… of course he had issues beginning a new relationship. Past infidelity would have no bearing on his feelings post her death. They appeared to have closed that chapter.
I grew up in the same area of NY as Stanley and he reminds me of so many of the Italian men in that area…always looking over the wife’s shoulder at the next woman, even if they don’t do anything about it.
I remember an article about Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune that came out before the play opened. The interviewer asked how Edie and Stanley would handle the passionate material. Edie said ‘Well Stanley is a happily married man, we’re adults, it’s acting’ or something to that effect. Stanley was absolutely not separated from his wife when he started the affair with Falco.
Rumor here in LA was that he had quite a thing for (an unavailable) Emily Blunt, and got involved with the sister just to stay close to her at first. Emily is the one who set them up.
I cannot believe the harshness on cheating on here. Both me and my long-term boyfriend/partner cheated years ago and we talked it out and remain stronger than ever nor has it ever happened again (we’ve been together 8 years). Cheating doesn’t have to be the breaking point people. It can fill in a gap to what is truly causing the unhappiness in one’s relationship. Relationships aren’t black and white and if you don’t talk this out thoroughly (which we didn’t when we had problems which led to the cheating; I had a year long affair he had a one night stand). I don’t get why we have to automatically brand him as bad for having an affair. Maybe his wife was unhappy too and when they came back together it was on better terms? He clearly stayed with her until she died. I think its sweet he is honest about having a hard time recovering from his wife’s death and admitting that you know, he wanted companionship and fell in love, but it still was difficult getting over her death at the same time. He may even feel guilt for the cheating, who knows.
I don’t think it’s the cheating that I’m judging so much as not quite understanding why he would feel more guilty about remarrying after his wife had actually DIED rather than when he cheated when she was ALIVE (which I think would inspire far stronger feelings of guilt and I can’t recall if he’s ever said he expressed remorse about the latter). That’s the distinction I’ve latched on to, and I assume others have too. The narrative he’s putting out in the above story doesn’t really make sense…
The story recounts the narrative of him feeling guilt about remarrying, but I don’t see why someone would feel guilt about remarrying if the wife or husband is gone and no longer here (unless the wife and husband tells you before death that you suck major watermelons and they’ll put a hex on you if you choose to remarry, and I don’t know how many people would express this sentiment this way out loud, even if they’re secretly thinking it). However, I do see why someone would feel guilt for cheating on someone who is alive (which I haven’t heard him express guilt about). It’s not implausible to feel guilt about remarrying, but to feel guilt about that (or far more guilt about that) over the actual cheating deviates from how people normally experience guilt.
You nor I know what he felt about cheating and leaving his family. He went back eventually. He never discussed it, so for all we know, he felt very guilty after a while and that’s what drew him back to his family. And he and his wife could have had major problems back then before the affair. We don’t know They obviously survived it and privately addressed it in saving their marriage. That was not talked about then and they moved past it, so why would he address that in an interview where he clearly grieved for his wife and their relationship was incredibly close and had some guilt moving on at first? I think most people if they truly loved their spouse have to deal with the guilt of falling in love after their death and come to terms with that initial feeling of guilt.
They were together for five years after that affair, three of which were battling cancer. He said they eventually traveled to other parts of the world looking for alternative medicine when traditional medicine, chemo and radiation, failed to help. She was diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer. It sounds like he was very supportive and instrumental in her treatment options and trying to save her and that they had had a solid marriage for years. There are plenty of men who aren’t supportive to a very ill wife. At least she died knowing she had had a husband by her side the whole way through her cancer fight who loved her unlike Elizabeth Edwards whose husband put her through hell the last years of her life
You’re correct in noting that I don’t know what he is or wasn’t thinking. But he’s constructed a narrative around the issue of guilt and marriage in this interview that he’s put out there for public consumption and for the public to react to sentimentally and with a certain degree of emotion. Since he’s put this narrative out there for the public, people will either agree with it or dissect it, analyze it, or find it confusing, which I personally do, just as others find the acts of other celebrities confusing when a certain narrative they put out there for the public to react to seems at odds or contradictory to their private behaviour. I don’t see why Stanley Tucci would be any more exempt from this analysis than any other celebrity out there.
+1
I’m judgmental about cheating. It’s a dishonest, immature, selfish way to handle problems in a relationship, and inexcusable in a marriage where you have vowed to be faithful to one another. It’s an absolute deal breaker for me. It shows a lack of self awareness and a lack of ability to maturely handle the pressures of marriage, a willingness to lie and lie and lie about where you are, what you’re doing, what you feel and what you’re thinking. It destroys trust and respect, the very foundations of love. A lack of commitment to the marriage, and a lack of problem solving abilities. A lack of character. A lack of concern about anything but what you feel and want, with no overriding concern about the relationship. If all of that is ok with you, that’s your business. But it’s not ok with me, and I’d rather be alone any day of the week than with someone who cheats.
+1000 GNAT. Very well said.
Exactly!!!!!!!
It’s not my place to judge the infidelities of OTHERS. It’s a deal-breaker for me, personally.
Wow. I can never understand why a woman would marry a man old enough to be her father. I couldn’t sexually.
Yeah, there’s no comment on the 21 year age difference between them. Just another shallow Hollywood type. I’m disappointed.
Zero judgement on his affairs and reconnections with his wife and Edie and the timelines. Or this new baby’s name. Or his honesty about survivor’s guilt. Questioning the 20 year age gap a bit.
He has been good friends with Emily Blunt & John Krazinski. Emily fixed him up with her sister.
Am I missing something? Is he not allowed to miss his deceased wife because they had marital problems? Clearly she was able to forgive him. I think it would make the guilt worse – he ended up missing out on what ended up being some of her final years.
People are not perfect. Whether he and Edie had and affair or if he was separated really doesn’t matter anymore. Either way it is sad his first wife died and he clearly mourned her. Relationships are complicated, more so when you are on the outside looking in. Once she was dying she may not have cared and decided to forgive any transgressions. Sometimes the bigger picture matters.
In the U.S,. 50% percent of first marriages, 67% of second, and 73% of third marriages end in divorce. . Why are there higher rates in second and third marriages ? Studies show that a significant number of people enter a second or marriage ‘on the rebound’ of a first or second divorce. Often the people concerned are vulnerable; they do not allow sufficient time to recover from their divorce or to get their priorities straight before taking their vows again. They enter their next marriage for the wrong reasons, not having internalized the lessons of their past experience. They are liable to repeat their mistakes, making them susceptible to similar conflicts and another broken marriage follows. After reading all the comments about how Stanley had an affair with Edie and how he left his wife and then got back with her to probably take care of her and their children, I wish him luck in this marriage.
That is not true about the divorce rate, and hasn’t been true in a long time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/the-divorce-surge-is-over-but-the-myth-lives-on.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=2&abt=0002&abg=0