Getting Back (at?) With Your Ex 

I have heard a lot of stories of couples divorcing and then later getting remarried, sometimes years and years later. I think it is interesting and romantic in a way, but it makes me wonder: if it didn't work out the first time, what has changed in the relationship that would lead the couple to think it would work a second time around?

I would probably get back together with my ex-husband, if I were single again and the thing that caused the divorce in the first place was no longer an issue. His family and their disapproval of me is what ultimately ended our marriage, so if something had changed in that regard, I'd probably take another chance with him. We were best friends and it would be nice to have that back.

I think that maybe, a lot of the time, divorced couples just needed to slough off the old to get ready for the new, much like a snake shedding a layer of skin. After enough time goes by, and each partner has had the time to do what they needed to do, they can be ready to find their way back to one another.

Sometimes there are kids involved, so each ex is always in the periphery of the others' life anyway. I can easily see a couple getting back together, not "because of" the kids, but because they have that unbreakable connection.

Would you ever get back together with your ex if it were possible? Why or why not?