…Daisy doesn’t even go to his funeral, Nick and Jordan part ways, and Daisy ends up sticking with racist Tom… you can tell Fitzgerald never took the time to look up at clouds during sunset,...

You and I both know that love is for children,” he said. ”We’re adults. Compatibility is for adults.””Compatibility is for my Bluetooth and my car,” Teresa replied. ”Only they get along just fine, and my...

Whilst lovers: to control her man, a woman uses (the man’s access to) her vagina. When ex-lovers: she uses (the man’s access to) their kids.

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence.

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.

In his sovereignty, God looked down through history and specifically chose you to be the father of your child. He decided no one else could raise that boy or girl better than you. In all...

I’m a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house.

Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.

If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we...

I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them...

On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that’s none of his business), he very sweetly says that I ‘might leave a wife, but not a...

There are all these things my mother is good for that my father isn’t, and all these things my father is good for that my mother isn’t, and if only they could work out their...

They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, ‘Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.’ And...

I’m creative, I make up almost everything. But with all my creativity, I couldn’t make up with my wife.

Divorce looks like one of the fastest ways to destroy your wealth.

What’s the truth? The truth is what happened to you and him or her, over the years, and what didn’t happen. The truth is what you said and didn’t say, how much you tried, how...

There are times that the emotions we keep in our hearts, no matter how abundant, are better left unexpressed.

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word “divorce” came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant “divide.” In truth, it comes from “divertere,” which means...

Once that ship has sailed don’t hold on to the anchor

God is great and God is good,” Lisa says. “But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?

I think: I would like to take N back to a story right now, like a rake. I would say, “Oh, this rake is uneven. Do you have any where the tines go straight across?”...

What is taking place here should be made very clear: Citizens who are completely innocent of any legal wrongdoing and simply minding their own business–not seeking any litigation and neither convicted nor accused of any...

Morgan explained about his marriages. He had tried to sell his ex-older wife an encyclopedia years before and well, you guessed it. When she agreed to buy the books he married her on the spot....

It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all...

A journey to try is not worthy to start, better to love none than starting over in relationships and getting dropped like a coin that won’t get tossed.

The most surprising thing about breaking up is that you already know how to do it. Everything you need to know, you learned in kindergarten. Yours should always be better than his (especially when it...

There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes...

Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal / financial complications or the massive lifestyle upheaval. (As my friend Deborah once advised me wisely: “Nobody ever died from splitting...

We have sent an emissary on the issue of working out an amicable divorce and the other side is willing to discuss.

My love is like an empty bottle of wine. If you’re wondering, my ex wife drank it all.

It was as if we’d known each other for a thousand years.

No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That’s already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the...

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced – when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than...

You don’t have to make any decisions right now,” Colleen says. “But I’ll tell you this. There’s life after marriage.”~Excerpt from “Mad Dog Justice

Just as a father hates cancer, because of what it does to his child, so God hates divorce, because of what it does to His children.

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides...

This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or...

I wouldn’t like to think of it as a divorce. I would like to think we worked together for a common good.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

It is hundreds of tiny threads of memories, which sew people together through the years. Despite, their mental separation they stay woven into that tapestry out of habit, emotion, obsession or fear.

When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that’s very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and...

In the end, single people either get boring, or they stay divorced.

We made love. Extraordinary love.

What is marriage?” Is it the impression and expectation that this man can make me happy—can be a savior that helps me forget the tragedy of my parents’ failed relationship as well as my own...

But I see how he watches the stars,And he talks to people just because, And gee, it would be nice to have a friend.”From “Fated” in BREATHE IN

I met someone else.” Just like that, Darcy’s world melted and distorted into something she no longer recognized. His words hung like poison in the air, and she held her breath, afraid to breathe it...

Why did we divorce? I guess you could say we had trouble synchronizing. You know that carnival ride where two cages swing in opposite directions, going higher and higher until they go over the top?...

Marriage is like a series of opposing reflections, inverse images getting ever smaller like nesting dolls, each one of your trying to squeeze yourself smaller to fit inside the hopes of the other, until one...

You asked why I couldn’t forgive you,” Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. “It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn’t want to be. That’s hard...