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My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#infidelity #marriage #seperation #marriage

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#feel-sorry #marriage #pity #marriage

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. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#divorce #evidence #infidelity #marriage #pencils

Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one. ↗

— Dennis Hopper

#marriage #marriage

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

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask. "Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

The marriage is over; counseling is the eulogy. The relationship autopsy is the wake. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#marriage

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation