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How understanding divorce can help your marriage

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Jeannie Suk Gersen |

TEDWomen 2019

• December 2019

To understand what makes marriages work, we need to talk about why they sometimes end, says family law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen. Follow along as she lays out three ways that thinking about marital decisions through the lens of divorce can help you better navigate togetherness from the beginning.

To understand what makes marriages work, we need to talk about why they sometimes end, says family law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen. Follow along as she lays out three ways that thinking about marital decisions through the lens of divorce can help you better navigate togetherness from the beginning.

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Jeannie Suk Gersen

Jeannie Suk Gersen

Legal scholar, writer

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Jeannie Suk Gersen writes on the legal complexities of the United States's evolving attitudes towards women's rights, sexual harassment and the interplay between law and politics.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.