Dear Eric: I am a lesbian in my late 60s. Recently I had a dream of a woman I knew back in the ’70s. I was very taken by her; even though I knew I was gay and confused, I married my boyfriend anyway.

Falling in love after divorce is a strange, beautiful, and often fragile thing. You carry the weight of the past, the lessons learned, and the scars you don’t always speak about. But when love finds ...