That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray.

No, scratch the word "career." Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.

But certainly not everyday you can find someone who wants to have a monogamous relationship

I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

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.