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Many issues can make marriage harder the second time around

Marriage can be more challenging the second time around. The partners are older, perhaps more set in their ways, and may have a dose of skepticism instilled in them from their failed first marriages. Bringing children into the new, blended family can also create difficulties as everyone learns to live together.

But it's often money that creates the most difficulties.

"What starts as a conversation about finances really becomes a major debate about goals and priorities, and a lot of couples aren't prepared for that," said Susan Zimmerman, a financial adviser with Zimmerman Financial Group in Apple Valley, Minn. "It can become disillusioning when it's the second time around."