Gayle Brandeis, the writer of this week’s Contemporary Like essay, was not guaranteed if her marriage could rebound from her obsession with a different man. Having said that, a glimmer of hope arrived in the variety of an unforeseen 98 p.c match on a courting app. That match was with her spouse, and from there they were equipped to rebuild.

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