It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayed in the air. I know I could never do it, don´t even know where I would begin to learn, but some people are built for it. He was handcrafted to leave, had practiced on other women since adolescence. I was one of an unnumbered series.
Suzanne FinnamoreMots clés marriage husband infidelity divorce seperation cheating
I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.
Suzanne FinnamoreMots clés marriage husband infidelity divorce seperation cheating
I think: I would like to take N back to a story right now, like a rake.
I would say, "Oh, this rake is uneven. Do you have any where the tines go straight across?"
I would like to do a straight exchange.
But there are things that cannot be returned. Errant husbands are one of them. Wives are not. Wives can be exchanged; I have always known this.
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People told me not to get married; I didn´t listen. No one ever listens, it seems to me now. Perhaps people should stop trying to communicate. N was not a communicator; early on, I´d insisted on communication. Now I see his point acutely. I would love to have him back to not communicate with me. I would never ask for communication again, I would simply go elsewhere for the deep fish. Also, I´m not at all sure I want to hear what he has to say in this new vista. This works out well.
Suzanne FinnamoreMots clés marriage husband infidelity divorce seperation cheating
I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend. I thought I could live with it—I thought, yes and I admit it, that I would be different. That at the very least, middle age and children would slow him down; however, they seemed to accelerate his pace.
Suzanne FinnamoreMots clés marriage husband infidelity divorce seperation cheating
Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.
Suzanne FinnamoreMots clés marriage husband infidelity divorce seperation cheating
I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to.
Suzanne FinnamoreMots clés marriage husband infidelity divorce seperation cheating
I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing, straightaway after the usual tears and denial.
Suzanne FinnamoreMots clés marriage husband infidelity divorce seperation cheating
I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.
Suzanne FinnamoreMots clés marriage husband infidelity divorce seperation cheating
They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it.
Suzanne FinnamoreMots clés marriage husband infidelity divorce seperation cheating
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