Is this a negative perspective? The stance of a victim? No, It is a statement of truth. The way it is for a woman who refuses to be cast aside without protest. Who has the...

Forgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again.

He announces that lately he keeps losing things. “Like your wife and child,” I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.

I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade.

whore” upon?

The doubts, strong as they were, were rousing more than hesitation. Her eyes drifted closed, fingertips sliding over the silk and lace panties she wore.Larry could never know how many times they’d been pulled aside...

Come over here and taste me,” he says, his voice little but a seductive whisper.

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.

Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained...

My phone started to vibrate and I flipped it open. Yes, I’m the only person that doesn’t have an iPhone.The phone talked to me. “Jackson, how’s it going?””Hi, Echo. Veeva Stackpoole’s here.”Silence. “What does she...

Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Whether a woman has stayed, left, or been left, it must be remembered that time is...

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....

Cheating and lying aren’t struggles, they’re reasons to break up.

Cheating is Defeating!

Ocular infidelity is unfortunately rampant in this so called “artist’s world.

Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.

People’s behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world’s version of insanity.

Sex isn’t all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.

Perhaps you’d be surprised at the lengths I’m prepared to go to in order to keep you happy, madam,” he replies, winking at me.

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...

The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.

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,...

I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara. The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when...

As mature adults, are we not called to a level of discrimination and consideration for the repercussions of our actions on others? Yes, the power of that surge of sexual energy cannot be underestimated—but knowing...

So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my...

They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it.

Infidelity is an opium of unfaithfulness.

Cheat, defeat, repeat.

… I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to...

i have to love myself more than i love him, in order to leave him.

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...

Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing.

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn’t...

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through — a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

Straddling him intimately, he slides his hands up my thighs, pushing the silk aside and caressing my pale, exposed skin. Even against his uniform, I can feel his hardness. His body feels taut and poised...

I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

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...

Très, très, triste…

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

I struggled with how I could begin to communicate across the immense chasm that my husband’s affair had put between myself and this man that, only months ago, had been the person I would have...

I am going insane. Yes. That is what´s happening. Good. Insane.

Yes. THANK YOU. And say hello to Judas Iscariot.

Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?

They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not; what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know.

Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.