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“I did not believe in stalemates. I believed in resolutions, one way or another, and if I found myself on the losing end, so be it. Losing meant quiet, and forgetting quickly, and giving up nothing ...”
“Sometimes divorce is the best thing that can happen to marriage”
“I don't want to be married anymore. In daylight hours, I refused that thought, but at night it would consume me. What a catastrophe. How could I be such a criminal jerk as to proceed this deep into...”
“My husband was sleeping in the other room, in our bed.I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distresswhat would be the point? He'd already been watching...”
“My heart is broken; my spirits gone,I broke my lovers heart, I made promises, I broke them all.The end was near, Ive crossed to the other side,My heart is broken, my spirits gone,I made promises, I...”
“In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.”
“you saywe were nevermeant for this vowed life,golden bands of only us, and deathdo us part. you say love like it's held in quotation marks,that this union soured before it started.”
“It takes a very long time to sever a marriage in which children are involved. There is a table, two chairs, and a small pile of bargaining chips. This is how it begins, but it ends with one chair i...”
“Whether we make our own money or rely on someone else, many of us would rater pretend our financial matters don't exist. Or we hope they'll just take care of themselves somehow. My ex-husband was l...”
“You were my marital bliss, he said to me this morning. You can be again! You know what I answered? A marital blister, thats what well have if I stay.”
“What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished thi...”
“In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so mu...”
“I never realized just how many things I really hated until you walked out the door and out of my life.”
“Divorced?''Separated.'He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' ("Novelty")”
“He remembers which sisterI like least and askshow she is doing.(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce')”
“She divorced her husband, y' know. I never knew him, it was before I met Jane. Apparently she came back from work one mornin' an' found her husband in bed with the milkman. With the milkman, honest...”
“I know that not every family is a clean-cut nuclear Mom and Dad at home situation - but I think every father needs to do whatever he can to be present in the lives of his kids. If you are in a situ...”
“The groom should not see you in the dress just before the wedding, thats bad luck. You know whats worst luck? Is getting married, itself. Ive read studies. Its like 2 out of 3 of those end in divor...”
“The conception of marriage that he formed as a young person and envisioned as an adult has been marred by circumstances that he believes could have been overcome without divorce. Yet, he still beli...”
“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 c...”
