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But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
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I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.
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It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.
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Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath. Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously.
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There is always something comforting about knowing that you are not alone. That other people feel the way you do. That you are a bit screwed up, but still normal.
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But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
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How different this moment feels, for so many reasons. I tell myself that no two loves are identical - but that I don't have to compare anymore.
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I wish i could freeze this moment, somehow delay my final decision, and just hang here in the balance between two places, two worlds, two loves.
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My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take it, like it's something they should be supportive about. I just mean that they are two basic facts about me.
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But i am content to live in the moment, and allow myself the daily pleasure of obsessing. nothing lasts forever, i tell myself. especially the good stuff. although typically you aren't faced with a hard deadline
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Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
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Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.
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My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.
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He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.
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You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.
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And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.
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Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle.
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When I meet someone I like being with more than I like being alone, I'll marry her.
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There are no absolutes in relationships. You can't take anything for granted. You can count on absolutely nothing but the unexpected. You only get in trouble when you start thinking that you're some kind of exception to the rule.
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There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love.
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Sorrow comes with so many defense mechanisms. You have your shock, your denial, your getting wasted, your cracking jokes, and your religion. You also have the old standby catchall—the blind belief in fate, the whole "things happening for a reason" drill.
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And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.
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Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.
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Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.
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I think I hoped for something more. Maybe I even hoped that I could find in Richard what I had with Ben. But it is suddenly very clear: Richard is not fallin in love with me and I'm not falling in love with Richard. We are not creating anything permanent or special. We are only having fun together. It is a fling- a fling just like he said last night- a fling with an ending yet to be determined. I feel relieved to have it defined
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Emily Giffin
Born:
March 20, 1972
(age 52)
Bio:
Emily Fisk Giffin is an American author of several novels commonly categorized as chick lit.
Known for:
Something Borrowed (2005)
First Comes Love (2016)
The One & Only (2014)
Where We Belong (2012)
Heart of the Matter (2010)
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