The Lies That Bind

by Emily Giffin

‘I’ve always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.’

At the end of the day, you just want to be happy and fulfilled and sometimes it’s hard to know what that looks like.”

After all, you reach the mundane, comfortable moments only when a relationship is working. When it’s not working, the passion morphs into something twisted and dark. Drama. Jealousy. A never-ending power struggle.

Maybe all relationship journeys are messy and complicated in one way

or another, products of two flawed people coming together to form a flawed but, one hopes, stronger union. Maybe the only people who don’t have any reservations amid a marriage proposal are delusional about love—and therefore destined to be disillusioned later in life when things get tough.

secrets always turn into lies when they’re kept from the people we love.

We may not get do-overs in life, but we can always have fresh starts and new beginnings.

cautionary tale to always follow your heart, but never stop listening to your head, either.

I began to learn that the world treats you the way you demand to be treated.