There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.

A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.

Soon he was online every night until one or two a.m. Often he would wake up at three of four a.m. and go back online. He would shut down the computer screen when I walked...

We talk. Darlene worries aloud that her husband works with a lot of attractive young women; she herself is fourty. I tell her it´s not about age. “Little thing called character,” I say, thinking, Accepting...

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them...

A united front announcing a split.

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn’t and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of...

Being married definitely took work. When we fought, I felt like I wanted to float away and drown, whereas before I knew I could walk away without any strings attached.

It was impossible not to fall in love with him.

falling” too, I am more concerned about the burdens of a non-custodial—the dilemma of parental alienation with absolute liability for financial support. If any ‘positive’ aspect could be extracted from the non-custodial lifestyle, it is...

I love firm hugs. Statues are so affectionate. Well, at least compared to my ex wife.

I replaced my wife with an empty chair, so I wouldn’t be poisoned at dinner. And I’m still alive, so I’d say it was a genius tactical strategy.

I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is...

Like the muscles knew from the beginning that it would end with this, this inevitable falling apart… It’s sad, but a relief as well to know that two things so closely bound together can separate...

I’ll tell you something, Harpy,” he said, his voice almost a whisper now. “It never even occurred to me that we wouldn’t make it. And it never occurred to you that we would. You were...

Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.

When a dreamer loses his lover, his dream profits. (Unless, of course, the lover was the dreamer’s dream.)

I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: “Oh My God Oh My God.

The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.

There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for love that was already gone felt like trying to live in...

He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.

When you choose to forgive the same people over and over again you do so because you don’t want to believe your time loving them was wasted. Bad relationships over time can become investments, that...

In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can’t force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared...

He remembers which sisterI like least and askshow she is doing.(lines 9-11 of the poem ‘Divorce’)

I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long.

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life...

Some people will only love you as much as they can use you, their loyalty ends where the benefits cease.

While getting a haircut, I thought about my failed marriage. Instead of feeling bad, I thought I’d grow a beard, move to the mountains, and start over.

Many of these people may have separated before the divorce became official, which would help explain why wealth starts falling so early. Divorce is often a long and messy process, and you can see this...

He’s probably divorced. Mental cruelty.

I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.

Genesis began with the Father losing His family. Revelation ends with Him getting them back. Is there nothing to be learned from this sad cycle? Truly, family is the legitimate theme of holy text.pg vi

Fozzy was slowly realising his mistake of not having taken his friends words of warning more serious all those years ago. ‘She’s an expensive filly, with double standards,’ he had said. Fozzy had not listened.

I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing, straightaway after...

For me, it´s sloth,” I say. “Hedonistic sloth and escapism.

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I – supposed fruit of their love – no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me nothing is sadder...

Divorce isn’t just the person, it’s everything that goes with it – your kids, the adjustment, everything.

Never develop any mysticism, about love; for love itself is a mystic thing that puts you in a mystic situation.

She is afraid of divorce, which will free her, as she was not enough afraid of marriage, which trapped her.

I’m always looking for what will make me whole. What will make me happy? Somewhere along the way I started to think it wasn’t Helen anymore. She hasn’t changed. Her laugh is still the one...

The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage...

dear samanthai’m sorrywe have to get a divorcei know that seems like an odd way to start a love letter but let me explain:it’s not youit sure as hell isn’t meit’s just human beings don’t...

My bed feels empty without my ex wife in it. Also, I’m not in it, so that’s probably why it feels so empty.

When my cell phone rang, I’d just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.

I spent about eight hours deep in thought over whether to get divorced. That may seem like a long time to ponder something, but I multitasked and slept at the same time. I woke up...

She had assumed they would see each other every day but she hadn’t really thought about the implications of having an affair with a married man. It wasn’t going to be a normal relationship.

An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty.

Just because a marriage ended didn’t mean that it hadn’t been happy at times.