Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he’d watched his own wife, a respectable nursery school teacher, produce and star...

One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is...

Together we agree that there are few tableaus more pathetic than a woman poring over a plethora of self-help books, while in a small café across town her husband is sharing a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé...

To keep myself from harming or calling N and to stave off the rage and despair, I focus on my extraordinary son, drink midrange Chardonnay every night after he is asleep, and make a barrage...

Adrian Mole’s father was so angry that so many pepole got divorced nowadays. HE had been unhappilly married for 30 years, why should everybody else get away?

If the Pentateuch is inspired, the civilization of of our day is a mistake and crime. There should be no political liberty. Heresy should be trodden out beneath the bigot’s brutal feet. Husbands should divorce...

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.

loneliness leads you to forbidden lands

Hell, I’d even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about nothing. Getting pissed-off over anything and everything. Day by day, year by year,...

I wanted the fairytale.

Roughly a month into my stay in jail, I began the first of twelve letters. The choice of titles had much to do with my reason (or circumstances) for being incarcerated: I was a parent...

I can’t explain it. It’s what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can’t do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.

Your relationship may be “Breaking Up,” but you won’t be “Breaking Down.” If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people...

Divorce is the second worst event in a person’s life. The worst event, of course, is marriage.

Tough break-up? Trash stinks, which is why you toss it.

Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more of their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination of people...

Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce inredirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.

People often equate divorce with failure. No one wants to admit to failure, but sometimes it is inevitable. The alternative is a far worse option.

Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.

This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.

There’s no way I can care properly for my children if I don’t first care for myself.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief–acceptance.

Jesus and Paul knew the Old Testament completely. Their comments about divorce were meant to add to, not replace or change, what was already written in the Old Testament about marriage and divorce.

This very easy divorce had become very difficult. I thought I was in the express lane and it was all fast tracks from there. Think again.

Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to.

Lovers who are free to go when they are restless always come back; lovers who are free to change remain interesting. The bitter animosity and obscenity of divorce is unknown where individuals have not become...

I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas, birthdays. Dry lips. On their best married days, their communications were...

I want to get married. But first I need to get a divorce.

Even a decade after divorce, the median wealth stays below $10,000.

Everything can change in a heartbeat; it can slip away in an instant. Everything you trust, and treasure, whatever brings you comfort, comes at a terrible cost. Health is temporary; money disappears. Safety is nothing...

Beauty won’t protect you. Not in the end. What will is the one thing you can’t plan for. The one thing you can’t save for or search for or even find. It has to find...

I’d always assumed Beth and I would be friends forever. But then in middle of the eighth grade, the Goldbergs went through the World’s Nastiest Divorce.Beth went a little nuts.I don’t blame her. When her...

Your heart doesn’t think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn’t consider the relativity of tragedy when it breaks.

It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this….

You get what you give,” we will tell his sorry, selfish ass.” The Betty Lady has spoken. I detect a Bronx accent.”But,” I demur, “it will make the other woman say, ´See? She IS a...

Through no-fault divorce, one parent can now declare unilaterally that the marriage has “broken down” and invite the state in to take control and remove the other parent without the parent having committed any legal...

I vow that i will never forget this once in a life time love and to know it to be the deepest part of our soul and no matter how far the wave carry us...

When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you...

I felt myself begin to slide down into that recognizable abyss, down and down, where I knew it would be cold and dark, but which had become more familiar to me than my face in...

Love is a crime if you don’t abide by it’s rules and regulations.

Giraldus claimed that he had heard about Eleanor’s adultery with Geoffrey from the saintly Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, who had learned of it from Henry II of England, Geoffrey’s son and Eleanor’s second husband. Eleanor...

those people”–the ones we don’t trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don’t let our kids play with, the ones bad things happen to, the ones we don’t want living next door.

If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.

There are a lot of young adults out there who have just lost their way. Some move home after a divorce, others just aren’t making enough after college to afford a place of their own.

No, it really isn’t, but trust me, getting divorced and having to start over is the least in life that isn’t fair. I had to watch the parents of a way too young girl realize...

He was the one I compared all others to.

It’s important to have a husband that lives and believes the same way you do. Otherwise, you’re asking for problems.