Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I’m sure you’re now aware. Any long-term relationship is – and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother...

I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.

But there’s no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.

I had a really kind of yucky divorce and it was really challenging to get over that.

When you settle for anything short of the best life God wants to offer you, then you have been tempted to remain safe and the accountability for not changing your life becomes your prison of...

I was planning to end this phase after a few weeks, but after one particular meeting, the lead advisor asked me not to come back. She said she’d noticed that every time I was asked...

Love is not blind but it leads to blindness.

Indeed, infatuation thrives on image (while love thrives on knowledge).

I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms.

They asked her (Ruth Graham) did she ever think about divorce and she said, ‘No, I’ve never thought of divorce in all these 35 years of marriage, but,’ she said, ‘I did think of murder...

He’s an artist in London. We don’t see him much.”Tom gave him one of his quick, considering glances and asked, “Doesn’t he live with you?””No,” said Indigo, finally saying out loud what he had known...

Marriage is a responsibility, not a swimming pool you can jump into and then just go out of afterwards

As soon as we met, she probably imagined herself marrying me. Then within five minutes, she was probably already envisioning divorce.

With my wedding photography business, I want repeat customers. So hooray for divorce! That’s why I take lots of pictures—of cheating spouses.

Bummer,’ said Ira, his new word for “I must remain as neutral as possible” and “Your mother’s a whore.

[Cage is frank about why he was drawn to the film.] I was going through a divorce … and was feeling adrift and vulnerable. I heard about the movie, and I thought it might be...

Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

There is that, and there is also the Irreconcilable Differences line. It seems so catchall, so vague. You could say that about anyone, any man and woman at all. Jesus and Mary Magdalene: “Irreconcilable Differences.”...

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage.

How can you try to score a touchdown but don’t take time to study? How can you expect God to lead you in the right direction of your life if you don’t put in the...

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

When unfailing love comes to fail, It will fail forever.

THE HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED!This book is one page long and just contains that one sentence.

We talked about all the decades to come and how they would never be enough.

abuse card”, the custodial parent has the aforementioned ability to operate as a double agent: on the one-side, the protector and caretaker; while on the other side, the divider and abuser. Similarly, the state can...

People do not get married planning to divorce. Divorce is the result of a lack of preparation for marriage and the failure to learn the skills of working together as teammates in an intimate relationship.

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs.

My boss recently filed for divorce and out of respect for all the things she’s going through, we’re not going to comment on her private life.

Sometimes, despite how your heart feels, you have to do what you must in order to get the result you need. When it’s impossible to walk away then you need to make it hurt and...

My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado’s aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around,...

I make a living, even life and death judgments, by reading peoples’ body language, their raw reactions to situations. And I’d almos swear you’ve never seen those documents before.””Well,” Aidan said, swallowing hard, calculating what...

I never married, but if I had done so, I’m sure I’d have divorced the sod a long time ago. Life is simply too short to hang around with annoying people. That may be why...

Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely...

Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time.

Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice.

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

If two people truly have feelings for one another then they don’t have an affair. They get a divorce and they sort out their feelings. You are accountable for the people you hold hostage in...

Even if the two lovers are mature and experienced people who know that broken hearts heal in the end and can clearly foresee that, if they once steeled themselves to go through the present agony...

At times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband.

FatherMichael:OK we should get on with this; I don’t want to be late for my 2 o’clock. First I have to ask, is there anyone in here who thinks there is any reason why these...

Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They sacrifice what they never had: a self. The cry of the deserted woman,...

…my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks,...

I want to get married, but first I’ll have to get a divorce.

The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

I don’t know how many marriage breakups are caused by these movie-and television-addicted women expecting some bouquets and kissing and hugging and being swept out like Cinderella for dinner and dancing — then getting mad...

It’s crazy what a heart blinded by love can lead you to believe.

I knew this for a fact. Little by little, the ache to see him, to hear him would disappear. Little by little I’d forget how his arms felt, how his fingers felt, how his lips...

When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children