You Could Make This Place Beautiful

by Maggie Smith

Fathers don’t feel guilty for wanting an identity apart from their children, because the expectation is that they have lives outside of the home.

If you feel that someone is being unkind or unfair to you, you don’t want to be close to them. Then you aren’t close to them, so you grow further apart. More unkindness, more distance. It’s a vicious cycle, and breaking it requires deep work.

Betrayal is neat because it creates a diversion. When there’s an explosion on one side of the street, no one is looking at the other side. You can easily just slip away in the commotion.

I wanted to save my marriage, but I wanted to save it without anyone knowing it needed saving.