#orc

To keep myself from harming or calling N and to stave off the rage and despair, I focus on my extraordinary son, drink midrange Chardonnay every night after he is asleep, and make a barrage of late-night mail-order retail purchases placed from the couch. The couch has officially become my second battle station. I am angry and I have credit And I´m all blackened inside; I should wear a pointy witch hat around Larkspur as I go to the bank and drop A off at day care. It would be more honest. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

The Betty Lady explains love and splitting up: "It´s like playing the shell game with Jesus. You can´t figure anything out; it´s best not to try. You´ll just humiliate yourself. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #love

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

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

I want to get married. But first I need to get a divorce.
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— Jarod Kintz

#marriage #marriage

If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?" Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#marriage #marriage

There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will. ↗

— Fernán Caballero

#force #inspirational #power #steam #will

If there was some way of knowing which boys were likely to turn out to be decent men, boys that could love us back as passionately as we felt we could love them, then we could banish the likelihood of divorce and unhappiness to a statistically unlikely outcome. ↗

— Belinda Jeffrey

#decent #divorce #love #men #outcome

There are men who dig for gold; [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#driving-forces #gold #greed #men

Success is not money, cars, fame or material possessions but the lives you touched positively. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#god #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #immortality #inspirational #leadership-torch

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#marriage #marriage