“Forgiveness is difficult, she said, making me feel small-hearted and brittle. You dont have to trust Adam again, not right away, but it does mean you have to accept whats happened and start to take...”

“Book club meets every other month or so. Besides marriage counseling and the very occasional night out with my sister, Im home twenty-nine nights out of thirty, and still the girls resent me. Not o...”

“In most marriages, lust and love become tempered by normalcy. If you hear your husband farting in the bathroom seconds before he emerges and asks if you want to fool around, you generally dont want...”

“Forgiveness is difficult,” she said, making me feel small-hearted and brittle. “You don’t have to trust Adam again, not right away, but it does mean you have to accept what’s happened and start to ...”

“The bewilderment is the worst part. That’s what they don’t tell you in divorce articles. They talk about anger and loneliness and growing apart and starting over and being kind to yourself, but the...”

“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.”

“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 goin...”

“Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.”