Marriage Breakdown Quotes

My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.

When my marriage broke up, I went to three separate therapists, and each was worse than the last. I can only speak for myself. There are other people it's been incredibly useful for, but not me.

I had to divorce my husband, the prime minister. I found it terribly overwhelming.

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

I actually think the subject of young divorce is pretty funny; I'd like to write a movie about it.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

My mother ran away from my father after 16 years of being married to him. She was 16 when she hooked up with him. She left him after having six kids.

Husbands & wifes [sic] are separating at a fearful rate and “taking up” with other persons. Not infrequently a man is living with two or three wifes. Though this has been the custom of the race and habit of the country for years, yet it cannot be looked upon in any light than a huge system of prostitution by sane persons.

Divorce: fission after fusion.

People get in auto accidents, they're paralyzed for life. I got hurt worse getting married.

Our relationship was one of the things that helped break up my first marriage. Miss Loren was always phoning me, and I'd go rushing all over Italy to be with her.

It was always difficult to get cattle returned once a marriage was dissolved.

Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits.

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

It's hard enough to be in a marriage, and then have a kid, then kids, it changes everything. For me, I'd become more concerned with my children. Not that I ignored Britney, but my kids are always most important . . . I mean, we were having complications. I didn't give her an ultimatum, but I was trying to work stuff out with her, and she didn't even talk to me or anything and went behind my back and filed [for divorce]. [I was] completely blindsided.

My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.

Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.

It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.

There are members - very, very close and dear members - of my family - I'm talking immediate family - who simply don't speak to me anymore and haven't done so for years. My marriage fell apart.

The thing is, when I had my first success it did coincide with the end of my first marriage, and because I went on to have a very, very unhappy two years, I don't think I equate career success with personal happiness.

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.

Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.

When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very tough, sheer agony. In that kind of harrowing situation, I always go away and cut myself off from the world. Also, I sober up immediately when there is genuine bad news in my life; I never face it with alcohol in my brain. I just rented a house in Palm Springs and sat there and just suffered for a couple of weeks. I suffered there until I was strong enough to face it.

Within a twelve or fourteen month period, I went through a divorce from my wife of 29 years, which is devastating emotionally and earthshaking as far as your whole world being turned upside-down. And within that same twelve month period, I left the Eagles.