Broken Marriages Novels & Stories

"What reason could he give for such behavior?" "He told me he didn't know how to tell me he wanted to end it. And the real reason he was breaking up was harder to admit, so he preferred to flaunt other women in my face. But before he went away to Brazil, he confessed that he couldn't disregard his family by marrying me because I didn't meet their approval. After all, I'm half African American." "What the?... Dexter saw my tears and felt the severity of my pain. It struck Dexter's heart! He knew that pain all too well about being in love with someone and them leaving you for something that you have no control over.

It causes all kinds of reactions in a relationship, mostly of the breaking-down kind. Look at what happened with Jamie, my first long-term boyfriend. We’d been happily together for four years and I just happened to mention that my parents got married at the same age we were (twenty-six and twenty-three). That was it. One mention. Whereupon he freaked out and said we had to take “a break.” A break from what? Until that moment we’d been fine. So clearly what he needed a break from was the risk of hearing the word “marriage” again. Clearly this was such a major worry that he couldn’t even face seeing me, for fear that my mouth might start to form the word again.

" Imagine this. You are married to him because your parents asked you to. But you love him. He has not touched you or even talked to you properly. The only thing you do for him is to make him breakfast and dinner. He places money in your bank account as a fee for marrying him. Whenever you try to talk to him, he gives you short replies because he could not be bothered to listen to you. Whenever you want to try and fix your marriage with him, he makes you think there isn't a marriage at all. He makes you think that you are like a book he has in his bookshelf for years. Every time your heart breaks because of your efforts. One day you tell him that you want to leave and he barely heard you. Yo

Well-established, handsome, and wealthy is the outline of that man. "Remember, I won't let you go. Keep suffering," Melvin said as he threw Danas on the floor. "Marrying me is not the end of your suffering but the beginning of your suffering. It's worth it for what you've done." "What am I doing? Why do you hate me that much?" "Don't pretend not to know," snapped Melvin. "I really don't know what you're talking about. What wrong have I done, that you want my life to be so miserable, huh! You made my father's company go bankrupt, and you forced me to marry you, why don't you just kill me."

I sat there and thought about that, I should ask my Papa if Grammy felt the fated bond at all, it’s a shame if she didn’t get at least some of the affects, the sparks, the flow of emotions once it snaps into place, something. I nodded, “very well, then I’m sure this union, or marriage,” I looked at Carla for the latter, “will be happening with no restrictions, but Charles the human’s do have something called a divorce if this marriage fails and only certain reasons for those failures, infidelity is one of those, so I give you fair warning.”

“Let’s get married, Karen!” That news was wonderful to end the day, Agatha's situation was not easy, a wrong choice made her experience the worst, from physical to psychological aggression. Accepting a fate like this is not an easy task, but when life wants it that way, what can you do but stay, and try to change the situation? “The only thing left is you and Anthony” Karen stopped smiling. “Marriage” let the word ring in his head. “That wouldn’t be good.” “How no, you love each other” protested Agatha.

I accept out of spite, drinking it while Lucien works on his laptop like I'm not there. Thirty minutes in, I break the silence. "How many couples will be there?" "Eight, including us." "Do they all have real marriages?" His fingers pause on the keyboard. "Define real." "Marriages that started without contracts." "Most marriages are contracts, Mara. Some are just more honest about it." "That's bleak." "That's reality." He returns to typing. "James and Victoria Worthington married to merge family fortunes. Oliver Grant married his assistant to avoid a sexual harassment lawsuit. The Pattersons have an arrangement where he keeps a mistress and she keeps his credit cards."

Christian was in his office, wracking his head for answers. The issue with his broken engagement had done more harm than good. Most clients they had withdrawn at the last-minute giving lame excuses which he didn't like “You made a mistake, I thought this was an agreement,” Shawn said with a smirk while he played with a few documents on the table. His friend was ready to get married. He didn't even mind about marriage. Unfortunately, after meeting another woman. He changed his mind “I'm not interested in getting married that's simple,” he was ready but not anymore, he would rather not get married, and it was their fault

"But why would she do something like that? Didn't she have a reason?" "I've asked Caine for one reason but all he says is that it didn't work out. Which sounds vague every time I think about it." I massaged her feet as I went on. "She broke him. She broke Caine. He isn't the same man he once was, love. And he is the first man I know who had been broken by marriage. Or love." "Well, there are others." "I know. But I am a witness to this very one. So I don't take it lightly."

Creighton nodded softly, and she could tell he was thinking the subject through. “Trust me?” he asked when he turned to look at her. Sandra nodded wondering if there would ever come a time when she didn’t trust him. “I’ll make it something you’ll remember forever, and I like the idea that you’re going into this without the safety net of a divorce option.” “I think if you take the divorce exit out of the picture, then you have no choice but to work out your problems and move forward.” “I couldn’t agree more. My grandfather told me once there are two things that break up marriages. Money and sex. I don’t think we have to worry about either one.”