The first I heard about the vicious, year-long court battle that preceded Menachem’s get was when I was married for barely a few weeks and Menachem’s sister mentioned to me that there had been a terrible story
I didn’t know anything about the circumstances of my second husband’s divorce when I first met him.
After that first meeting I remarked to my mother half-jokingly “I’d better know the story if I’m going to marry him.”
My first marriage had ended after a year leaving no children. Menachem had been married for longer and had a three-year-old son who was living with his ex-wife.
My mother knew only the most basic details of the split. “The problems started apparently after the baby was born. His ex-wife suffered from postpartum depression and her parents decided that her husband was to blame.”
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