Divorce Quotes
And finally, always remember that the other person started it.
The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline.
True respect means accepting someone and honoring his or her thoughts and feelings.
If we aren't willing to change, we aren't willing to unconditionally love.
No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.
No terms, no conditions, no promises, no commitment, and no institution—but only another example of what happens when law and politics attempt to regulate a religious institution.
Do not let your divorce define you and the rest of your life. Let go of anger and embrace the future possibilities of infinitesimal happiness
In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.
Step-parents, those fairy tale villains, Have been given a bad name.They're easy targets.When the family goes awryHow easy to blame them.I was blessed by the right steps...
Some girls say that they are by themselves because men today don’t have anything to offer.
Indeed, infatuation thrives on image (while love thrives on knowledge).
Does speed dating necessarily end up in a quickie divorce....?
I have tried to fight the impulse, the attraction, but my defenses crumble every time I see him. Since my divorce from Hank I'm practically love-starved.
It was the time of year that makes every poet’s heart sing and every lawyer question their life choices.
A man who respects his wife, does not sleep with other women. And a woman who respects herself does not allow her husband to get away with it
Dave, would you please tell your wife she can relax. She’s got the job. It isn’t necessary for her to keep pointing out our short-comings just so you can feel better about leaving us.
Bad divorce?" Hardy asked, his gaze falling to my hands. I realized I was clutching my purse in a death grip.“No, the divorce was great, ” I said. “It was the marriage that sucked.
He was leaving my stepmother for a sailboat. Not that I blamed him. A sailboat would at least be useful.
Darling Daddy, This is Rose.The shed needs new wires now it has blown up.Caddy is bringing home rock-bottom boyfriends to see if they will do for Mummy. Instead of you.Love, Rose.
Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn’t matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!
Some people do just enough to keep you around because they are AFRAID to know what life would be like without you
I have shaken loose. Like the lily, I rest on the deep water's surface. Not knowing the journey's end, I rest in nature's embrace.
You can't have understanding without having empathy, and you can't have empathy without losing money.
. . .once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.
And so I was left with a mantra, a sort of haiku version of our relationship: I don’t regret one day I spent with him, nor did I leave a moment too soon.
It is not the pain from the present that is killing you, but all your repressed feelings from the past that adds weight to it.
At the end of a marriage, no one wins. There is only anger, sorrow, guilt, emptiness, and defeat.
Divorce is a process, not an event. It takes months to unfold, a barrage of emotional ups and downs as denial is replaced by grief, grief by anger, and anger gradually eases into acceptance.
It turns out there is something worse than attending a wedding where you don't know anyone: attending a wedding where you know six people, and they are all your ex-husband's best friends.
At first, I was grateful to be the object of such intense desire. Yet what’s flattering in the first year can be suffocating in the eighth.
Trust is very hard to earn, yet very easily to lose. So, if you want people to perceive you as trust worthy make sure you always behave that way.
When a man cheats on his wife or girlfriend, he breaks the spell that made him once the special one.
As long as you leave to others the responsibility to make you happy, you are going to be miserable, because it is actually your job.
Major changes in life are just the way the universe is aligning a better future for you.
Any woman has the power to be truly happy, with or without a man.
Maybe it shouldn’t have come as such a surprise, but like a tooth extraction, there was a moment of intense pain and then a numbing sense of loss. I was officially unmarried.
You move forward because you have to. Life doesn't stand still. It makes you move on until you want to move on, you know? It'll run you over if you don't move.
She didn’t know that loss was alive in the world, a thief always about to slam you and steal everything you had.