How could you do that to me?” I repeat. I don´t have to itemize. He knows what I speak of.Eventually N produces three answers, in this order:1. “Because I am a complete rotter.” I silently...

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

They may already know too much about their mother and father–nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I’ve...

Betrayal is an ironic thing. He or she betrays you then you betray yourself. You think you’re showing strength with your anger, but in reality you’re showing how much you still care.

It wasn’t about being happy or unhappy. I just didn’t want to be me anymore.

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

But you are my wife!” when I didn’t do something that he wanted me to do. His expectations were not realistic.

Every cell in my body was telling me that he was my happily ever after.

Divorced from Reality.

Peace, of course, is different from divorce; indeed, in essential respects, divorce is the opposite of peace.

Divorce becomes a holy moment when you choose to use it as a catalyst for having an extraordinary life.

My biggest grouse since the time I filed for divorce has been that when all the drama unfolded, the children were made pawns. That should never be the case. You never know how it affects...

She had golden blazing sun kissed hair, which hung down in loose, lazy spirals, a heart shaped pouted mouth, which was pink tinged with violet blushing, wide, spangled blue eyes that glimmered sparks to flicker...

We’re not peculiar.””Oh, yes, you are. Don’t you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they’d never been divorced? Basically because it would have been too much trouble. But you live in...

She [Mme Sazerat] did not offer her hand, but smiled at my mother with vague melancholy as one smiles at a playmate from one’s childhood, but with whom all connection has been severed because she...

A breakup is a loss to both parties; not only to he or she who is told that it’s over.

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. “Like your wife and child,” I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.

The Betty Lady explains love and splitting up: “It´s like playing the shell game with Jesus. You can´t figure anything out; it´s best not to try. You´ll just humiliate yourself.

The society has instilled in us the importance of coupling and downplayed on singlehood as a form of disease.Business institutions rake money for family needs and wants especially on birthing and its sustainable needs demanding...

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?

Marriage is what you make of it, and God has many versions of what that looks like based on what different souls need, in order to grow.

There are lots of real reasons to decide to leave something or someone, but there are lots of other reasons that are less valid and less real and less about a relationship than our own...

I had to get used to it because my life was no longer safe and I was no longer protected like I once was.

I took the sleeper out of Glasgow, and as the smelly old train bumped out of Central Station and across the Jamaica Street Bridge, I stared out at the orange halogen streetlamps reflected in the...

Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.

Not necessary that every problem has a solution, you have to live with ‘some’ problems..rather than forcing a solution and doing a blunder, live with it.. People always have solutions for ‘your’ problems but none...

I never knew what love was until after I got divorced. But I’ve always been a bit dyslexic.

While men come out slightly ahead, divorce destroys wealth dramatically for both sexes.

People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it’s really a difficulty process; it’s heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.

If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn’t have found a reason to let you go.

We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.pg vi

My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.

I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.

It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.

Losing a mate to death is devastating but it’s not a personal attack like divorce. When somebody you love stops loving you and walks away, it’s an insult beyond comparison.

You can’t go through a divorce and then get back together.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.