#ria

Here was something I already knew to be true about myself: Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days! ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#marriage

It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this.... ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#marriage #truth #marriage

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#keller #manhood #marriage #relationships #marriage

The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I supposed these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you thinking how are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do? ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#marriage #marriage

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but through being the right mate. ↗

— Barnett R. Brickner

#marriage

Take me now, God!" I shout to the inky sky. "I´m ready." "You´re not ready. You´re not even divorced yet," Bunny says. "You cannot die married to that man. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into something they could never be. I loved them all but maybe I never understood any of them. I don't think they understood me. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#ava-gardner #divorce #frank-sinatra #love #marriage

I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think about anything, except ways in which this may still be averted. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#conscience #courtship #dignity #empowerment #feminism