“Divorce is intrinsically hard, but our attitudes make it harder than it needs to be. Guilt, shame and a sense of failure significantly raise the emotional cost of divorce.”— Danielle Teller, ideas.ted.com
“Now I know that love is forgetting you, love is not wanting you back, love is falling in love again, love is allowing me to feel angry with you, despair about you, hope about us, and then wisdom that it wasn’t you, it will never be you.”— Jessica Semaan, medium.com
“I think a lot of people write drafts like these, but maybe fewer revisit them regularly. I love to reread mine.”— Christina McCausland, thecut.com
“I never asked for our hearts to be perpendicular. I would have gladly settled for parallel.”— Brianna Pastor, wnq-writers.com