As a Divorce Financial Strategist(TM), I see every day how broken marriages impact the financial well-being of women.

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The latest chapter incorporates moments from the earlier films (the failed marriages, the broken dreams) as the subjects settle into middle age, and it finds them all at a relatively peaceful stage in their lives.

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Marriages, under threat in some of Ms Barker's other books, here have already broken up in one way or another.

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