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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

Life – with or without softener- is hard

This is going to hurt, but you will have to watch other couples be happier, richer and louder than you. Wait. No obstacle can withstand patience. Wait. You may not think so now, but there...

Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and now here it comes with conviction, almost panic. I mentally bless...

Daily I walk around my small, picturesque town with a thought bubble over my head: Person Going Through A Divorce. When I look at other people, I automatically form thought bubbles over their heads. Happy...

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...

What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again?...

Divorce can be a very destructive force and high powered, professional career women, like myself, don’t have the luxury of time to fall apart. We want an alternative to months in therapy – something which...

You are far too amazing to be someone’s backup. You’re someone’s first choice.

The conception of marriage that he formed as a young person and envisioned as an adult has been marred by circumstances that he believes could have been overcome without divorce. Yet, he still believes in...

(Divorce)We’ll remarry someday when we’ve grown, Like royalty who’ve earned the throne. An aisle made of gold, To have and to hold.My dress made of rags, A suit that’s so torn.All eyes are on me,But...

I wanted a divorce, so I bought myself a house, to give me the incentive to stay married.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.

Make up your mind, Simon. It’s either me or your wife, you can’t have it both ways.” She didn’t sound vulnerable like a rejected woman, she sounded shrill and demanding with a threatening tone. (terrific...