Your best friend is 29 years old and just divorced after 5 years of marriage. She had a steady boyfriend in high school and married her college sweetheart. She is very concerned that she will never find another person with whom to have a romantic relationship. What do you tell her? Divorced people are usually not interested in remarrying, and they typically stay single the rest of their lives. Most people who divorce in young adulthood remarry within 5 years. Since she really has never been single, she better get used to it because that is the way that she is likely to remain. Usually couples are court-ordered not to remarry until after 10 years after the divorce.