So you're divorced - does that mean that you shouldn't give it another try? Just because your first marriage failed doesn't mean that the next one will, too. Plenty of people get married a second time, whether as a result of divorce or being widowed, and the second time proves to be the charm. In fact, more than one-third of divorcees remarried after divorce, according to 2004 data from the U.S. Census. For about 50 percent of divorced people, those remarriages happened within 5 years of the end of the first marriage. With more than half of marriages ending in divorce, you're in good company if you're newly single and considering whether or not to marry again.