Recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void.

Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.

I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everything comes so easily. I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That is the only real way to grow together, instead of apart.

Well, shoes, bags and clutches are usually my big weaknesses - my husband always laughs when I call them 'investment pieces.'

There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.

I don't break up, I trade up

you'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates.