He tried to smile, but it was just a shape his mouth made.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

You sense that he's dangerous but don't now why - and wonder if it's because he makes you feel safer than you've ever felt.

We are all children until our fathers die.

He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.

You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.