One day you’re going to miss her chasing you, you’re going to miss her annoyingness, and you’re going to miss how much she cared. You broke her many times, but now you lost her.
“Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.”
― Jennifer Weiner
Gottman’s Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse model covers negative communication patterns in relationships, such as criticism & contempt, defensiveness & stonewalling.
If we could transcend beyond the limits of an ethnocentric approach and develop cultural empathy, we’ll be much better equipped to manage marriage as well as divorce.
“Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It’s for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It’s for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don’t see it nearly enough.”
– Meghan Daum
