“As a young woman, I schooled my romantic sensibilities on the most impossible examples. "Romeo and Juliet" is one of my favorites. I once plotted out the length of time it took them to conjoin. Four days. Four days for… — Wendy Plump Copy Share Image
“I have never cataloged what I would want in a marriage. I might as well do it now... I want an arrangement in which love and passion mingle and last. I want a rock to lean against. I want sex to pierce reality and come blazing out the other side. I want to feel that someone has my back. I… — Wendy Plump Copy Share
“Affairs are like a seventh day. They are a break from all duties and obligations and responsibilities. I'm not saying this is right and I'm not saying it lightly. This is just how they are. You can't be responsible when you're with your lover. And since you already know you're way out of line, you go the extra distance. You… — Wendy Plump Copy Share
“Coping with the strains in her own marriage, she told me that she had a simple way of getting around the tension with her husband: that you should always be polite with each other and that you should always have sex when the other wants it. Because sometimes manners and sex are all that you will have. And that, she… — Wendy Plump Copy Share
“They make sense in a superficial way, and they've been tossed around so much that they are almost a received wisdom. Spouses do feel unloved, do feel bored, do think the lover understands them better or is at least more willing to act that way for the sake of getting laid. What I think I should have been told -… — Wendy Plump Copy Share
“Divorced people try to maintain at least a shred of respect for their former spouses. They say, He or she is the parent of my children and I will do it for that reason. This statement brings me down. I always feel defeated after hearing it. As if that's the only reason there is to err on the side of… — Wendy Plump Copy Share
“As a young woman, I schooled my romantic sensibilities on the most impossible examples. "Romeo and Juliet" is one of my favorites. I once… — Wendy Plump Copy Share Image
“When you start to get bored with your misery, you are on the first rung of recovery and you are beginning to climb back… — Wendy Plump Copy Share Image
“Emotional trauma is something we should be forced to take a formal course in during high school, sandwiched between advanced statistics and AP English.” — Wendy Plump Copy Share Image
“Based on my perspective of him, man's men do not cheat. They get jazzed just by being manly.” — Wendy Plump Copy Share Image
