It's Better to Have Loved and Lost than to Still Be with that Jerk!

Why is it that when you're heart is broken, people always like to give you a list of cheese-y quotes that are supposed to make you feel better but lets get real; they just make you want to punch the person in the throat.

When I went public with my divorce, well meaning individuals (who will remain unnamed in order to protect them from ridicule) offered me the following lines:

1. It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. Seriously?!! I feel like I want to crawl in a hole and die and this is the best you can do.

2. Time heals all things. Great. I'll keep you posted on when hell freezes over.

3. It just wasn't meant to be. That's a shocker since the marriage is over and we're now divorcing.

4. Well, at least you didn't have kids. This was probably the hardest for me to hear coming out of my mini marriage. I wanted to have children and even had names picked out for our kids. Letting go of the children I thought I was going to have was one of the most painful parts of my divorce. To be getting divorced without children doesn't make the divorce any easier or less painful, like so many people think. It just makes the divorce less complicated.

If you have any other comments you'd like me to add, please let me know and I'll update my list.