Infidelity Quotes
Haruki Murakami
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.
4376 Scott Dikkers
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.
4598 David Rovics
They'll say you are bad
or perhaps you are mad
or at least you
should stay undercover.
Your mind must be bare
if you would dare
to think you can love
more than one lover.
2323 Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through - a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.
2941 Katherine Owen
There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.
4404 Rodney Dangerfield
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
2006 Suzanne Finnamore
My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.
2018 Thomas Paine
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
1827 Suzanne Finnamore
I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.
4033 Kay Goodstadt
Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely.
3658 Rodney Dangerfield
What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.
2834 Suzanne Finnamore
I remember one desolate Sunday night, wondering: Is this how I´m going to spend the rest of my life? Marrid to someone who is perpetually distracted and somewhat wistful, as though a marvelous party is going on in the next room, which but for me he could be attending?
2833 Suzanne Finnamore
I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.
4113 Suzanne Finnamore
So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my hand would creep across the table to hold his. He would always let go first. I realize I can´t remember his last spontaneous gesture of affection.
3559 Suzanne Finnamore
They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.
2928 Suzanne Finnamore
Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely fashion, and move on to a life of vegetarian cooking and difficult yoga positions and self-realization, and make this so much easier and more pleasant for all concerned.
1034 Suzanne Finnamore
I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death.
Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.
1879 Suzanne Finnamore
He announces that lately he keeps losing things. "Like your wife and child," I want to say, but don´t. At fourty, I´ve learned not to say everything clever, not to score every point.
3272 Suzanne Finnamore
How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask.
"Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that.
1491 Suzanne Finnamore
God is great and God is good," Lisa says. "But where are the Apache attack helicopters when you need them?
1568 Suzanne Finnamore
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.
2457 Suzanne Finnamore
How can I grieve what is still in motion?" I ask her. "Shoes are still dropping all over the place. I´m not kidding," I say. "It´s Normandy out there.
2452 Suzanne Finnamore
I saw my reflection in their eyes, but not the men themselves, not clearly. This preserved the idea that all intelligent and even vaguely attractive men were essentially good. Delusion detest focus and romance provides the veil.
2419 Suzanne Finnamore
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.
1478 Suzanne Finnamore
I review what I know once again, confronting the monolith now alien and almost unconnected to me: my marriage.
1649 Suzanne Finnamore
I know my vision is impaired and cannot be trusted with even the simplest tasks, much less dating. Not that I´ve come within talon distance of a man.
4558 Suzanne Finnamore
I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.
4085 Suzanne Finnamore
It had all seemed as inevitable as sunset. Instead it was the beauty of the sun glinting upon the scythe.
2712 Suzanne Finnamore
Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk.
1868 Suzanne Finnamore
Naturally, I do blame Françoise. I blame her for having N in the first place. She was young, she was beautiful, she was married to a doctor, and she was intelligent. She could have abstained from producing her first son. It was wrong on a variety of levels.
4889 Meryn G. Callander
Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Whether a woman has stayed, left, or been left, it must be remembered that time is the salve on this journey towards forgiveness and healing, because it is also a process of grieving.
3846 Meryn G. Callander
I will eternally give thanks for those women who essentially said, ‘Yes, I see you. And I love you. I see your pain. You have every right to be right where you are, right now. And you will come through this. You will.
2101 Meryn G. Callander
While each of us must walk this path alone, we need not do so without the empathy, the encouragement and the love of others who are travelling, or have travelled, this terrain - or those who having lived life long and deep and can meet us there, with wisdom and compassion.
1858 Meryn G. Callander
You can see it as you walk through the street: people who have never recovered. You can see it on their face, in their posturing. It needn’t be that way. We really are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers … we really are obliged to put out our hand to someone who is in that state of shock or trauma because it could be us, just as easily.
1896 Meryn G. Callander
It is in the immediacy of our personal lives that our proclamations for a better world acquire real life meaning.
1216 Michael Bassey Johnson
Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.
2875 Anaïs Nin
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
3257 Ava Gardner
Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
1637 Helen Ellis
A pink razor is like a mouse, where ever it is the pussy will follow.
3389 Raphael Schwartz
Sex Games: What Men Really Think About Sex Partners (Sexuality, Cheating
1114 Chelsea Handler
After discovering him in his threesome, I spent the next two weeks in bed suffering from a severe case of vagina elbow. It's a condition not unlike tennis elbow, but you get it from masturbating.
1723 David Hewson
The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.
4099 Bill Maher
Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.
1833 Suzanne Finnamore
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.
1848 Suzanne Finnamore
He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.
3003 Suzanne Finnamore
Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.
3877 Suzanne Finnamore
I am going insane. Yes. That is what´s happening. Good. Insane.
1327 Suzanne Finnamore
I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: "Oh My God Oh My God.
1815 Suzanne Finnamore
Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.
3620 Suzanne Finnamore
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.
4647 Suzanne Finnamore
I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.
4069 Suzanne Finnamore
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.
3476 Suzanne Finnamore
It´s a little song about abandonment, and it goes something like this....
2510 Suzanne Finnamore
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.
2594 Suzanne Finnamore
I feel angry but not homocidal; this may be unlooked-for progress.
2068 Suzanne Finnamore
The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.
4765 Suzanne Finnamore
I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.
2813 Suzanne Finnamore
This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.
2444 Suzanne Finnamore
This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together.
3551 Suzanne Finnamore
Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time.
3031 Suzanne Finnamore
This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love that may in fact be dependence and even indifference.
3894 Suzanne Finnamore
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.
4188 Suzanne Finnamore
Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands; I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.
3153 Suzanne Finnamore
The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.
3439 Suzanne Finnamore
Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing.
3112 Suzanne Finnamore
We talk. Darlene worries aloud that her husband works with a lot of attractive young women; she herself is fourty. I tell her it´s not about age. "Little thing called character," I say, thinking, Accepting marital advice from me: the height of lunacy.
1722 Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara.
The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn’t have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.
1156 Suzanne Finnamore
Together we agree that there are few tableaus more pathetic than a woman poring over a plethora of self-help books, while in a small café across town her husband is sharing a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé and fettucini Alfredo with a beautiful woman, fondling her fishnet knee and making careful plans to escape his life.
4948 Jenny Offill
It is easy in retrospect to see why he’d want to go. There are two women who are furious at him. To make one happy, he must take the subway across town and arrive on her doorstep. To make the other happy, he must wear for some infinitely long period of time a hair shirt woven out of her own hair.
3788 Crystal Woods
(On getting married at 19)
We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.
1336 Leah Stewart
His face became a mirror, and in it I saw a monster version of myself, unleashing my anger like black magic. In front of my children, in front of my neighbors' house. If I'd really been a witch Nathan would have been a column of dust. Not even a lizard, not even a toad. Just nothing. Nothingness,
2531 Leo Tolstoy
Here it is. Let's say you're married, you love your wife, but you're attracted by another woman.'
'Excuse me, but I absolutely cannot understand how after eating my fill here I could go past a bakery and steal a roll.
4361 Wyclef Jean
It's the same with [my wife] - when she goes out, guys are macking on her. I'm not worried with the kind of relationship we've got. Most people, they don't leave room for mistakes in their relationship.
4900 Ariana Carruth
Finding her meant that I could move forward unabashedly, without fear of rejection, without the endless need for acceptance from my husband or from anyone else. My worth was decided by me, now.
1792 Dennis E. Adonis
Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride.
4359 A.S.A. Harrison
In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.
4747 Michael Bassey Johnson
Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.
3229 Nicholaa Spencer
Cullan was already inside her room, walking toward her. The sliding door was reduced to shards.
"I asked you nicely." Cullan said in a loud voice. "Why won't you even-"
"Is swearing nice to you?"
"You riled me up!"
"You kissed another woman!
3951 Claire Dyer
After all, she knows how painful it can be not to follow your heart and she knows about the obstacles and about loyalty and duty and about the countless kinds of love. If only Eve and Myles were freer to make the right choices, she thinks.
4979 Walker Percy
Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
2481 Kelley Armstrong
Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn't find anyone new? He'll come slinking back. By then, if you're smart, you'll have decided you're better without him.
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