Mallory Ortberg Quotes

I've been married a few times. I'm not good at it.

I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce. When I reached that crossroad, I felt like such a failure. After years of therapy together, I realized that staying together was emotionally destructive.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

I wanted my marriage to work, but it didn't.

I want to ask those people who are saying how can her marriage go wrong even for the second time. I want to ask them why can't things go wrong.

Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.

People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.

I can't imagine the biggest blow to me was that marriage not working out. That just flipped me out.

I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I was married a lot, but I didn't stay married very long because I didn't seem to be able to choose somebody that was a stable man.

Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.

Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.

Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.

A marriage can go wrong at any time.

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.

Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of.

I've two failed marriages in the past.

I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on." "Babes," he told her. "You're dead." "That's one of those aspects, obviously.

I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.

Divorce isn't caused because 50% of marriages end in gayness.

Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

If your husband has difficulty getting to sleep, the words 'we need to talk about our relationship' may help.