Quotes about infidelity
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Most women think cheating is 'disgusting' … until they fall for a man that likes them back but isn’t willing to leave his lover for them.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
I feel angry but not homocidal this may be unlooked-for progress.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands I realize this now. Flannel shirts are to women what crotchless panties are to men.
Dennis E. Adonis -
Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh - The Language of Flowers
I’m talking about the language of flowers. It’s from the Victorian era, like your name. If a man gave a young lady a bouquet of flowers, she would race home and try to decode it like a secret message. Red roses mean love; yellow roses infidelity. So a man would have to choose his flowers carefully.
Leah Stewart - Husband and Wife
His face became a mirror, and in it I saw a monster version of myself, unleashing my anger like black magic. In front of my children, in front of my neighbors' house. If I'd really been a witch Nathan would have been a column of dust. Not even a lizard, not even a toad. Just nothing. Nothingness,
Belinda G. Buchanan -
It was your choice to sleep with her Gavin! It didn't just happen!
Robert J. Sawyer - Calculating God
If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?
Stephanie Wallace -
I was lead to get help from Dr Mika Saheed during the period my husband left me in July 2016 because i wanted my husband to be home with me and we could be together on next valentine's day. I skeptically called to see if he can be of help in making my husband love me and return his love and emotions back to me again. So when we had the first conversation he reassured and i quote "This spell is going to take a bit longer than my previous spells, due to his reluctance and a controlling spell laid
Kristin Hannah - Distant Shores
It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care.
Kelley Armstrong - Visions
Stray cats are like two-timing men. He got tired of you and took off. He doesn't find anyone new? He'll come slinking back. By then, if you're smart, you'll have decided you're better without him.
Enid Shomer -
AttractionThe whites of his eyespull me like moons.He smiles. I believehis face. Alreadymy body slips down in the chair:I recline on my side,offering peeled grapes.I can taste his tonguein my mouthwhenever he speaks.I suspect he lies.But my body oils itself loose.When he gets up to fix a drinkmy legs like derrickshoist me off the seat.I am thirsty, it seams.Already I see the seductionfar off in the distancelike a large treedwarfed by a risein the road.I put away objectionsas quietly as quilts.Al
Robin Hobb - City of Dragons
If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.
David W. Jones - Enough: And Other Magic Words to Transform Your Life
Sometimes… Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith. Sometimes weakness is the opposite of strength, but sometimes weakness can be the pathway to strength. Sometimes addiction is the opposite of sobriety, but sometimes addiction can be the pathway to sobriety. Sometimes infidelity is the opposite of fidelity, but sometimes infidelity can be a pathway to fidelity. Sometimes failure is the opposite of success, but sometimes failure can be the pathway
Drexel Deal - The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
Listening to their argument made me aware of how empty my life was, and I hated the life I was living all the more. It was quite obvious to me this lady was deeply in love, for she was fighting for what she thought to be hers. Even though I was dating two females at the time, and stringing a third one along, yet I’ve yet to discover that kind of love. I guess this was why my favorite song was ‘I wane be love’, by the Jamaican reggae super star Buru Banton.
Kay M. Rutherford - The Last Cheater's Waltz Trusting Dog Trusting Self
i have to love myself more than i love him, in order to leave him.
Raquel Cepeda - Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
Women destroy me. I allow them to.
Muse -
Ocular infidelity is unfortunately rampant in this so called "artist's world.
Dianne Harman -
Discretion is a polite word for hypocrisy.Tea Party Teddy
Alison Weir - Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
Giraldus claimed that he had heard about Eleanor's adultery with Geoffrey from the saintly Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, who had learned of it from Henry II of England, Geoffrey's son and Eleanor's second husband. Eleanor was estranged from Henry at the time Giraldus was writing, and the king was trying to secure an annulment of their marriage from the Pope. It would have been to his advantage to declare her an adulterous wife who had had carnal relations with his father, for that in itself would have
Ravi Zacharias - Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love
Marriage brings together not just a man and his wife but their children and their struggles. To suddenly drop the partner who has carried that load with you along life's journey for all these years for someone with no strings or worries attached is cruel. Marriage is not a commercial enterprise in which you replace a car you have tired of with another one.
Abhijit Naskar -
If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to kill or torture another being for holding a different belief system than one's own, then that entity is no being of the civilized human society, it is merely a pest from the stone-age.
Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.
Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train
She's cuckoo, laying her egg in my nest.
Elda M. Lopez - The (In)Fidelity Factor
Cheat, defeat, repeat.
Françoise Sagan - dans un an
his conscience washed clean by happiness.
Steven Magee -
When your partner is regularly going out to bars and nightclubs and does not come home until after sunrise, it is likely that they are engaging in some form of infidelity.
Petina Gappah - An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
Like the worthless dogs that are his countrymen, my husband believed that his penis was wasted if he was faithful to just one woman. - At the Sound of the Last Post
Patrick McGrath -
Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
... I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.
Lundy Bancroft - Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
The central attitudes driving the Player are:Women were put on this earth to have sex with men—especially me.Women who want sex are too loose, and women who refuse sex are too uptight. (!)It’s not my fault that women find me irresistible. (This is a word-for-word quotation from a number of my clients.) It’s not fair to expect me to refuse temptation when it’s all around me; women seduce me sometimes, and I can’t help it.If you act like you need anything from me, I am going to ignore you. I’m in
Michael Bassey Johnson -
Only a fool would be patient enough to stay in a totalitarian love affair, and only the insincere will use anarchy to commit the sin of unfaithfulness.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Mr. Right' is usually two or eight men.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
A love triangle is a threesome delayed.
Donna Lynn Hope -
You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that’s what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and sadly, you know that what you did wasn't worth what you lost.
William Shakespeare - Othello
DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweetThat the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,Made to write “whore” upon?
Lolah Lace -
...I know that if you ask me to jump I will say how high. So I will stay away from you and hope that you never ever say jump.
A.S.A. Harrison - The Silent Wife
In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.
Felicity Brandon - Erotic Fantasies
As I am still on duty at this moment, is there anything else I can do for you?” he continues.Images of him kissing me, disrobing me and fondling my entire body fill my mind… I push them away, although I know my face has coloured at the thought.“I have a few suggestions…” I murmur quietly, staring into his smouldering blue eyes. “But I am not sure they fall into a butler’s remit.”“Perhaps you’d be surprised at the lengths I’m prepared to go to in order to keep you happy, madam,” he replies, winki
Felicity Brandon - Erotic Fantasies
Come over here and taste me,” he says, his voice little but a seductive whisper.
Felicity Brandon - Erotic Fantasies
Straddling him intimately, he slides his hands up my thighs, pushing the silk aside and caressing my pale, exposed skin. Even against his uniform, I can feel his hardness. His body feels taut and poised for action.
Felicity Brandon - Erotic Fantasies
He stands, loosening his black tie and stripping off his white shirt, dropping the latter just in front of my face. The appetizing smell of him reaches my face in a goading wave. As he walks around my body to the bed, he slaps my ass, making me turn and yelp.
Felicity Brandon - Erotic Fantasies
Sara?” Blake’s voice is scorching and burns right through me.“Yes, sir?” “Lock the door and get over my knee. Now.
Felicity Brandon - Erotic Fantasies
Shall I pour for you madam?” he asks. It is an appropriate question and yet he makes it sound like a scorching proposal…“Mmmm, please,” is all I manage in reply.I watch him filling the crystal flutes one at a time. He is meticulous and seems to deliberately take a long time to complete the job. The room is silent – except, it seems, for the sounds of my excited breathing. “Is there anything else I can do to help you enjoy your stay?” he probes, raising one dark eyebrow ever so slightly...
Alaria Thorne - Ravaging The Bride
The doubts, strong as they were, were rousing more than hesitation. Her eyes drifted closed, fingertips sliding over the silk and lace panties she wore.Larry could never know how many times they’d been pulled aside in a rush of unbridled lust, how the side had been carefully stitched after they’d been ripped from her in a bar bathroom a few years ago by a man whose name she didn’t even know. She found her fingers at the seam, her breath shallow and shaking as she remembered the way his rough, ca
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker - The Fugitive's Doctor
I know that many, if not most, women would have a problem with my acceptance of what happened with Lara. The reality is I shall always be grateful to Lara for helping my husband when I could not do so. I couldn’t have chosen a better or kinder surrogate.
Bill Maher - When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terro
Women are also property in our bible; adultery is a property crime in the Old Testament, not a sex crime.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
People told me not to get married; I didn´t listen. No one ever listens, it seems to me now. Perhaps people should stop trying to communicate. N was not a communicator; early on, I´d insisted on communication. Now I see his point acutely. I would love to have him back to not communicate with me. I would never ask for communication again, I would simply go elsewhere for the deep fish. Also, I´m not at all sure I want to hear what he has to say in this new vista. This works out well.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
I think: I would like to take N back to a story right now, like a rake. I would say, "Oh, this rake is uneven. Do you have any where the tines go straight across?" I would like to do a straight exchange. But there are things that cannot be returned. Errant husbands are one of them. Wives are not. Wives can be exchanged; I have always known this.
Ava Gardner - Ava: My Story
Sex isn't all that important, but it is when you love someone very much.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Soon he was online every night until one or two a.m. Often he would wake up at three of four a.m. and go back online. He would shut down the computer screen when I walked in. In the past, he used to take the laptop to bed with him and we would both be on our laptops, hips touching. He stopped doing that, slipping off to his office instead and closing the door even when A was asleep. He started closing doors behind him. I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
This people know where their husbands are. I would like to vomit. I would like to vomit my soul out.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
The abandonment came, and now this shabby bacchanal.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
This is much easier than when N left. Our son is unable to grasp and simultaneously turn doorknobs yet. If only this trick could be unlearned by men over thirty, many more families would celebrate Christmas together.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love that may in fact be dependence and even indifference.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
I sensed he may have occasionally strayed in some of his past relationships. It was something I felt but ignored, a rent in the fabric of an otherwise splendid garment I thought I could mend. I thought I could live with it—I thought, yes and I admit it, that I would be different. That at the very least, middle age and children would slow him down; however, they seemed to accelerate his pace.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
They ought to do away with divorce settlements. Instead, both parties should flip a coin. The winner gets to stay where he or she is and keep everything. The loser goes to Paraguay. That´s it.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
The real genesis is forbidden to me, vis-à-vis N´s inability to confess even the mildest transgressions.
Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading
(On getting married at 19) We told ourselves we had forever and we never looked back. The problem was that we never really looked ahead.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Conversely, I though humiliation would be everything, but it´s such a nothing.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
This is much worse than losing a cat. You do not wish the cat dead, for example, after the first two days. You still love the cat and presumably the cat still loves you, or some variation of love that may in fact be dependence and even indifference. People should be informed, as adopting a cat and becoming married take about the same amount of time and money and yet have such drastically different results. Indeed, except for the similar price($28)and the average time spent together, all similari
Jean Elson - Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America
If they could not prove adultery or extreme cruelty, Nina's attorneys had an alternate strategy available. Rhode Island was unique in allowing divorce based upon other, more ambiguous grounds, as well...[as] an omnibus clause in the state's legal code authorized divorce based upon..."gross misbehavior and wickedness in either of the parties repugnant to and inconsistent with the marriage contract"...the relative vagueness of the terms "gross misbehavior and wickedness" left room for interpretati
Jean Elson - Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America
Nina could scarcely believe a house could be as quiet as the one on Washington Street. Although there were moments when she missed her children, her main response to living apart from her husband was relief…[H]er current solitude was not just a respite, it was a time to contemplate her future options. Nina marveled that she had choices to consider.
Jean Elson - Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America
Leaving James was not something Nina had thought possible, but if she could do so and still keep her children, it might be better for them, as well as for her.
Jean Elson - Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America
When her husband recovered, it was to shout abusively at her…. Later, when she reflected on it throughout the tedious courtroom proceedings, she realized this was the moment she had irrevocably determined to divorce her husband.
Jean Elson - Gross Misbehavior and Wickedness: A Notorious Divorce in Early Twentieth-Century America
As a hedge against possible failure to prove adultery, this alleged “that for a period of time from 1901 and continuing thereafter he [had] kept up and continued an undue, improper, indecorous and licentious association and intimacy with a woman, named Mabel Cochrane, many years his junior, and of questionable character and immoral habits.”[i] Furthermore, Nina accused James of “bestowing upon and receiving marked and improper attention” beginning in the fall of 1901, “indulging in undue and imp
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Together we agree that there are few tableaus more pathetic than a woman poring over a plethora of self-help books, while in a small café across town her husband is sharing a bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé and fettucini Alfredo with a beautiful woman, fondling her fishnet knee and making careful plans to escape his life.
Adelheid Manefeldt - Years: a book of tiny poetry
The secret tugs at my sleeve.A child looking for attention.It is not a big secret.But it is not the only one either.“Strength in numbers” they say.For they are many.Many little things that – together –weigh tonnes.And take up space.And are quite noisy.The way only a lot of whispers can make noise.And they follow me.Little secretsof omission, desire,and denial.Of indulgence, hedonism,and exploration.Of peeves, passion,and deep-seated fear.Little secretsof despairanddisrepairandprohibited thorough
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Men (who cheat) do not cheat because they are dogs. They are (regarded as) dogs because they cheat.
Petina Gappah - An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
Later, as she drove the children to school, she thought how worn the grooves were along which they moved their quarrels. She could feel herself saying all the clichéd phrases of a thousand injured women before her, but she could never stop herself. - ‘The Negotiated Settlement
Alessandra Torre - Moonshot
I thought women enjoyed affairs. I thought they got sparks of pleasure at the buzz of their phone, thought they ran around with a glow, their world suddenly on fire with new love. I thought they were women with terrible husbands and unhappy lives, an affair the first step in an eventual ending of their marriage. I thought that they were horrible, selfish women. I never thought that I would be one of them. I never thought that I'd be so weak. It turned out being the perfect wife was only easy whe
C. JoyBell C. -
Gay people getting married is not a threat to the institution of marriage. You know what's a threat to the institution of marriage? Infidelity is! Hate is! Unforgiveness is! Apathy is! Coldheartedness is! Fear is! And you know what's a threat to the kids? It’s not having gay parents! Most gay kids have straight parents! And plenty of gay parents raise respectable, straight kids! The threat to children isn't their parents being gay; the threat to children is their parents not loving one another!
Jack Dancer - Detour Allure
If you're single and not committed, then go for it. The world's your oyster. But, if you're happily married and want to remain happily married, then the only oyster should be the one sliding down your throat from your spouse.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
I am going insane. Yes. That is what´s happening. Good. Insane.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: "Oh My God Oh My God.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
It´s like watching someone do a triple backflip dismount and land on two feet, solid, arms splayed in the air. I know I could never do it, don´t even know where I would begin to learn, but some people are built for it. He was handcrafted to leave, had practiced on other women since adolescence. I was one of an unnumbered series.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
I am not ready to think of him as either insane or evil, to consider in full how I could love and have a child with such a person. I am not ready to think about anything, except ways in which this may still be averted.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
I played possum. I did this, as the possum does, out of fear.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
The whole world seems tilted, my inner ear displaced by a hole where my spouse used to be.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly.
Crystal Woods - Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Yes, some mistakes leave their mark, like the infidelity stains in the backseat. But in time they do fade.
Anaïs Nin -
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
A heart can stop beating for a while, one can still live.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.
Alexandra Katehakis - Healthy Sex While in Recovery from Sex Addiction
Many partners of addicts have told me they feel bad about themselves for staying in the relationship because of the betrayal they’ve experienced. They imagine that the people who know their past judge them to be stupid for staying with the person who’s caused them so much pain. I often counter this thinking, explaining that leaving may seem quick and easy because they can pretend they’re okay and the problem has disappeared. However, if you leave your relationship, you’ll be stuck with your pain
Rodney Dangerfield -
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
My mother is a firm believer in the long pause, useful in interrogations, proclamations of truth, and the occasional cutting dead of someone without their knowing it.
Thomas Paine - The Age of Reason
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Suzanne Finnamore - Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.
Haruki Murakami - West of the Sun
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.
Scott Dikkers - You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.