What you do with your heartbreak is yours, never feel the need to explain to people why things ended the way it did; it’s not for the world to own.

He went on for some time while I sat listening in silence because I knew he was right, and like two people who have loved each other however imperfectly, who have tried to make a...

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.

I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend....

People always say that once it goes away, you forget the pain. It’s a cliché of childbirth: you forget the pain. I don’t happen to agree. I remember the pain. What you really forget is...

Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

Maude regards the ones who don’t make it as her own personal failures. “I guess I didn’t put enough emphasis on ‘until death do you part,'” she says sourly, whenever she hears about the latest...

When words don’t add up in love, it is because of six possible reasons: 1. They are afraid to tell you the truth because you will leave them. 2. They enjoy being a liar or...

The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline.

The only way to get over the pain is to face it, embrace it, hug it and learn the lessons embedded within it.

For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an early age.And to her, he would always be her infatuation gone horribly wrong.

the best interest of the children”.

(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.

What the efficient market hypothesis doesn’t account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.

If you’re as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?”Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn’t be divorced without it.

From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been cut, the parts with her neatly trimmed away, leaving my image behind. Photos...

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in anaccumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimismwere more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It washard to resist the metaphorical impression that women...

Choosing to break up your family is one of the most difficult decisions you will make in a lifetime. But once you have come to it; it will be with certainty. Certainty that you are...

If a tree falls in the forest and kills your ex-wife, what do you do with the lumber?

Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.

The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.

You don’t know when you’re twenty-three.You don’t know what it really means to crawl into someone else’s life and stay there. You can’t see all the ways you’re going to get tangled, how you’re going...

There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What...

Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.

They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.

Even though their marriage had been dead for over two years (her words, not mine), this put her in the role of the innocent. She was now a woman scorned. ~Shattered Reality

A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps.

[Tchaikovsky] was going through tough times then, because he went through a divorce. This symphony is very intense and passionate but with a very optimistic and exciting ending.

Grief is the emotional contract of divorce

I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.- I believe that dreams can become reality.- I believe in true love.- I believe in kindness and intelligence.- I trust life, regardless.

A man who respects his wife, does not sleep with other women. And a woman who respects herself does not allow her husband to get away with it

Ten greatest gifts; love, joy, peace, patience, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Divorced?”Separated.’He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. ‘Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don’t want it.’ (“Novelty”)

It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn’t know what they mean to you.

Once we’re at the stage of life where we can stand our own silence, where we’ve made peace with our past, where we’ve accepted and grown from its lessons, and we would like to share...

It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayed in the air. I know I could never do it, don´t even know where I would begin to...

Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd,...

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife

Marriage isn’t a love affair. It isn’t even a honeymoon. It’s a job. A long hard job, at which both partners have to work, harder than they’ve worked at anything in their lives before. If...

But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a...

I guess I could drive myself crazy trying to figure out why he left me but I can’t, all I can do is move on, Parisa replied, the words came out smoother and easier than...

I was physically attacked by a woman who didn’t even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me.

Those unexpected morality lessons provided by the trip had jolted me into some kind of action. It was time to jettison the past before the present jettisoned me. This was my first veiled attempt at...

Why don’t you just pretend that the asshole dropped dead? You can’t call or write to a dead man. Put a couple of candles in front of his picture, say a few Hail Marys, and...

As close as we’d been when we were together, we were closer in our unraveling, telling each other everything at last, words that seemed to us might never have been spoken between two human beings...

I had a dream about you. You wore a cowboy boot, and I wore a better fitting hat. You were in a white dress, like a wedding dress, only weddinger. I was wearing a twisted...

Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

That was the kind of life she’d had as a child, and it was the kind she wanted as an adult. But it hadn’t worked out that way. Things in life seldomdid, she’d come to...