Brenda Perlin Quotes

This very easy divorce had become very difficult. I thought I was in the express lane and it was all fast tracks from there. Think again.

I was physically attacked by a woman who didn’t even know me. Yes, my boyfriend was her former husband, but she tried to ruin me.

Not long after my mom died, my dad pretty much kicked me out of the house. He never said, “Get out of my house,” but instead, I came home one night to find all my clothes scattered all over our front lawn.

Somehow, we both got carried away. I don’t know exactly how it happened, but before long, I knew nothing was ever going to be the same.

I tried, I really tried, to stick with it. I planned to grow old with this man and possibly die in his arms.

I didn’t want to get burned. I didn't want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.

At times, it felt so odd being with a man in such an intimate way who was not my husband.

I was always on guard and I was always prepared for him to be upset with me. I had lived feeling uneasy and tense for so long.

I don’t know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.