In the wake of the pandemic, they suddenly wanted to get married again.
Danish couple Lotte Preisler, 75, with her husband, Kjeld Preisler, 82, after their wedding ceremony April 3 at the St. Nicolai Church, where they were first married exactly 55 years before. “Everything is magnified right now,” said Suzanne Bracker, a Manhattan divorce lawyer, who has been overwhelmed with client inquiries. “The good relationships are getting better, and the bad ones are getting worse.
Exactly 55 years before, on April 3, 1965, the couple — then 27 and 20, respectively — got married for the first time at the same church in Copenhagen. That marriage didn’t work out. A series of hardships ultimately led to their divorce in 1989, a time they both remember with unsettling clarity.It started when Kjeld spent over a month in the intensive care unit battling cancer — a fight he nearly lost. Since he was bedridden and Lotte was looking after their children alone, the business went south.
“That was another really hard blow,” said son Simon Preisler, 44, from his home in Ramsey, N.J. “There is a limit to how much people can take and how much hardship they can endure. At some point, the shared pain between them got to be too much, and they decided to part ways.”Being apart, though, proved more difficult than staying together. After two years of living separately, the couple gradually made their way back to each other.
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