Rachel
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It might make you uncomfortable, but shit, a lot of what’s in here makes me uncomfortable. It makes me vulnerable. And if I’m uncomfortable, why should it just be me?
“I know it will be OK because everything is OK in the end. And if it’s not OK, it’s not the end.”
― After I Do
― After I Do
“Isn’t it nice … once you’ve outgrown the ideas of what life should be and you just enjoy what it is.”
― After I Do
― After I Do
“I had no idea that marriage was only supposed to be between two people who wanted to get between the sheets and make more people. What ever happened to marrying for love— or to get on your partner’s health insurance policy, or for presents? No one was going to buy two people in their thirties a four-slice toaster if we just continued to live in sin.”
― I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids
― I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids
“Invalidating a woman’s life choices by saying things like, “Oh, but you’ll regret it if you don’t have kids,” or, “I didn’t think I wanted kids either until I had one,” is like me going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and telling the newly sober that eventually when they grow old, they’ll want to take the edge off with a little gin and tonic and that if they could only just be mature enough to control themselves, they could go on a fun wine-tasting tour in the Napa Valley.”
― I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids
― I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids
“Ryan and I are two people who used to be in love.
What a beautiful thing to have been.
What a sad thing to be.”
― After I Do
What a beautiful thing to have been.
What a sad thing to be.”
― After I Do
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