#hea

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

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

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 Rings still there but no longer valid.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

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #infidelity #marriage #seperation #marriage

By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can always unchoose later—again, for its own mysterious reasons. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#heart #marriage

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#delusion #divorce #infidelity #marriage #relationships

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 hand would creep across the table to hold his. He would always let go first. I realize I can´t remember his last spontaneous gesture of affection. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#love #love

Years of love, followed by heartache. Those are the years that define me. Those are the years that know– love’s eternity is you. ↗

— C. Elizabeth

#heart-ache #heartache #loss #lost #love-lost

LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #freedom #happiness #heaven #husbands

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Surprises, I feel now, are primarily a form of violence. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage