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How can I

build trust

again?

—
Neil Strauss

 

 

My uterus hurts like

my heart.

—
Jennifer Coleman

 

 

Received “counseling

voucher” as wedding gift.

—
Jessika Blanton

 

 

Long-distance love.

Short-distance lust.

—
Robin Boord

 

 

Starving artist lived

on love: broke.

—
Kara Bernatowicz

 

 

I need a looser deadline, baby.

—
Ryan Hagen

 

 

I wasn’t looking.

She found me.

—
Hal Isaacson

 

 

He had nothing.

Gave me everything.

—
Rebecca Woolf

 

 

Bad idea being wife

number four.

—
MJ Miller

 

 

She said she was a he.

—
Paul Morris

 

 

Three-word memoir: Paper. Pen.

Revenge.

—
Lora Mitchell

 

 

Death, divorce,

heartbreak, cancer.

Chocolate helped.

—
Linda Farbstein

 

 

My ex ended up

on
Oprah
.

—
Michele Menzia

 

 

Everyone’s crazy except you

and me.

—
Mark Frauenfelder

 

 

Let’s live on an island

together.

—
Carla Sinclair

 

 

His fists loved me. He didn’t.

—
Andrea Paloian

 

 

Bankrupt man

marries and

bankrupts me.

—
Edie More

 

 

A threesome in

Portugal. Nothing

happened.

—
Julia Slotnik Sturm

 

 

She broke my heart

by e-mail.

—
Dan Rollman

 

 

Two marriages.

The wrong one died.

—
Anne Hamilton

 

 

Ecstasy. Exquisite

pain. What’s the

difference?

—
Adrian King

 

 

Stopped wanting Mr. Perfect,

found him.

—
Bob Morris

 

 

Couldn’t count…

on him either.

—
L. J. Williamson

 

 

Found fellow cliff-diver. Best risk ever.

—
Piper Kerman

 

 

Love—an invitation

to climb trees?

—
Joanne Harris

 

 

Second time around,

I got luckier.

—
Joan Leibovich

 

 

Found true love

at a funeral.

—
Ted Sutton

 

 

Engaged in Jerusalem.

Thank you, God.

—
Lynn Harris

 

 

The couch is actually quite

comfortable.

—
Beth Cato

 

 

Endurance is an

expression of love.

—
Lee Woodruff

 

 

Our prison visitations

were surprisingly romantic.

—
Larry Smith

 

 

Wedding day:

MIL bet we’d divorce.

—
Susan Henderson

 

 

Sorry, it was

the Paxil

talking.

—
Sam Seder

 

 

Best family ever.

Thank you, Match.com!

—
Alexa Young

 

 

I fixed him but broke myself.

—
Amal Khairul

 

 

Girl loves, but boy loves boy.

—
Sandra Jackson

 

 

I finally threw away his

toothbrush.

—
Rachel Fershleiser

 

 

He was attracted

to crippled girls.

—
Terri Wagener

 

 

We’ll break up

before this prints.

—
Porochista Khakpour

 

 

It’s just a matter of luck.

—
Ayelet Waldman

 

 

Call when you get

home safely.

—
Crissa-Jean Chappell

 

 

I’m your one that got away.

—
Mary Elizabeth Williams

 

 

In hindsight, I’d

still choose you.

—
Natana Gill

 

 

It happened in a

graceless kiss.

—
Caroline Sun

 

 

I told you it affects me.

—
Carrie Kania

 

 

Cynical New Yorker

convinced of soulmate.

—
Kate Hamill

 

 

Romantic comedies

screwed me for life.

—
Daniela Medina

 

 

May

I

have

the

last

dance?

—
Robert Hass