I'm always looking for what will make me whole. What will make me happy? Somewhere along the way I started to think it wasn't Helen anymore. She hasn't changed. Her laugh is still the one I remember. Her finger is still the one I put the ring on all those years ago. I can't understand why I don't want to curve next to her, keep her back warm anymore. Surely you don't lose love like keys?

~ Cath Crowley

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If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go.

~ Germany Kent

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We grow apart because we grow in different stages and not all of our stages align.

~ Dominic Riccitello

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Times and scenes like that put Janie to thinking about the inside state of her marriage. Time came when she fought back with her tongue as best she could, but it didn’t do her any good. It just made Joe do more. He wanted her submission and he’d keep on fighting until he felt he had it. So gradually, she pressed her teeth together and learned to hush. The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor. It was there to shake hands whenever company came to visit, but it never went back inside the bedroom again. So she put something in there to represent the spirit like a Virgin Mary image in a church. The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired. She wasn’t petal-open anymore with him.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

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Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency, you become irrelevant in each other’s lives. We call this phenomenon 'growing apart'.

~ Steve Maraboli

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That's how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.

~ Nenia Campbell

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He loved her; in some ways he was devoted to her. But he couldn't reach her, and it was the same on her side. It was as if they'd drunk some fatal potion that would keep them forever apart, even though they lived in the same house, ate at the same table, slept in the same bed.

~ Margaret Atwood

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