#cheat

Hatsumi had a pretty good idea that Nagasawa was sleeping around, but she never complained to him. She was seriously in love with him, but she never made demands. 'I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #love

...love is always infidelity, isn’t it? Always a betrayal of someone or something. Even with your first girl, when you’re seventeen and living at home, you’re still cheating. Cheating on your parents. Pretending to be a child with them and a man with her. Having to hide the smile on your face and the scent of her on your body. And all that hiding making it so much more precious, so much more exciting. And you’re cheating on your friends too. Pretending you’re still one of the gang, when all you are is her lover and you could care less about any of them. And it doesn’t matter how old you are, or how free you are, you still cheat. A single man with a job in love with a single girl, he’s still unfaithful. He’s cheating every time he drives to work and pretends to go through the old routine, while in his mind he’s really with her, rushing to her, flowing all over her. Just walking down the street, pretending to be a regular human being, he’s betraying all the other human beings around him. Because he’s nothing like them. He’s not walking next to them at all. He’s not even there. He’s with her. ↗

— Phoef Sutton

#cheating #love #home

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #infidelity #marriage #seperation #silence

I was steeped in denial, but my body knew. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#divorce #husband #infidelity #marriage #seperation

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path. ↗