Regret After Divorce: I Lost The Best Her Novels & Stories

“Remember this—I will never, ever, come back to you. I’ll do everything to push this divorce through as soon as possible.” She turned to leave, but before she walked out the door, she stopped, her back still to me. “I’m disgusted with myself for ever loving you, Tristan. I regret the day I gave you my heart.” And then she was gone, leaving me standing there. Her words echoed in my mind. My heart felt like it had been torn to shreds, weakening me. I had faced numerous confrontations with Elaine before, but never had she mentioned regretting loving me. And it hurt. It really fucking hurt.

Maybe the divorce will give us both the peace we can’t seem to find together anymore. But I will always regret this. And I will always remember you as the best part of my life. Please take care of yourself. You deserve more than I ever gave. —Nathan I stared at the screen long after the message faded. Hot tears streaming down my cheeks………..

I said, “You’re just still carrying the heaviness of the grief that man gave to you.” Mama slowed down the spinning of the yarn. She looked as though she was lost deep in thought. When she finally spoke, her words moved me. “Grief is heavy, Lydia,” she said, “But even worse is regret. You would not believe the number of times that I thought of leaving that man early on in our marriage. But after a while I just … cowed.” I sat up straight and put a hand on her shoulder. Mama turned towards me. “Mama, I think that you should get a divorce.”

For a moment she said nothing, and the silence pressed between us like a wall. I stepped closer, cautiously. “Everyone at the office… including the board… they haven’t forgiven me for divorcing you.” She stiffened slightly but didn’t turn back. “They won’t say it to my face,” he continued, “but it lingers. In their stares. In their half-frozen smiles. In pity I hate seeing. They all think I lost more than I understood at the time.” “And did you?” she asked quietly, still not looking at me. “Yes,” I answered without hesitation. “I lost the best thing that ever happened to me.”

Not our divorce. His regret.

I tried to reassure him, but deep down I knew some of his words were true. “But Fred just couldn’t love me, well not truly, not the way a happily married man would anyway,” I continued, deciding to leave Nancy out of the picture for now. The man was suffering enough pain lying there in a hospital bed. “It seems that divorce was our best option.” “Thank you, Emily. You’ve always been my favorite,” and he managed a cheeky smile. “I’m just glad to see you are doing well. I’m happy you’ve been able to recover from this atrocity. Now, you take good care of yourself, you hear me?”

I touched it gently. Three years ago, I gave up my career for this marriage. Three years later, I was leaving with nothing. Tears gently rolled down from my eyes I looked around the villa one last time. “This is goodbye,” I whispered. The next morning, the divorce was finalized. By afternoon, I was gone. Adrian did not know. He did not know that the woman he divorced that day was no longer the same woman he once ignored. And he definitely did not know that one day, he would regret signing those papers more than anything else in his life.

I continued, "All these years, you know very well how much I've done for you and for the company. He may have signed off on my resignation, but if you had treated me as someone important in the company, my resignation wouldn't have gone through in the first place. "And if you hadn't been so eager to travel abroad with him and had taken just two minutes to look at the divorce agreement I gave you, this divorce wouldn't have gone through so smoothly. "Ruby, you've long stopped loving me. Even without Wilbur, there would have been countless other men. Being married to you was exhausting. I don't have the strength left to love you anymore." With every word I spoke, Ruby's face grew a shade paler

“Why would she ask to see me of all people?” “Because Sophia is an angel from the sky. She still thinks of monsters like you even in pain.” I smiled sadistically, “The way you speak of me, you would think we weren’t married at some point.” He stared at me through the rearview mirror, “Of all my regrets, marrying you was my biggest one.” His words stung more than they should. “You know, even though you’ve hurt me to the point of no repair, I wouldn’t even say what you just said—especially to your face.”

"We've known each other for more than eight years now. Courted for a few months, married for two years, and divorced for over five years now. Ever since we met. It was an instant attraction, and the way she looks at me, or the way I look at her, no one has ever looked at me the way she did. The connection was undeniable. Everyone could see it, even though her family wasn't in support of our union, she sacrificed her inheritance for me, and that's when I knew, there was no one else in the world for me, but her. And, we were perfect. She was everything I could have ever asked for, and more. So much more." "But, what went wrong?" "Everything went wrong. After two years of being married, her bes