Author: Harlan Covington

**Deciding to Divorce…** With a tray in hand, Emily endured the endless queue in the cafeteria

**Diary Entry – 8th March** I was well into my thirties when I finally decided to marry. I’d never rushed—no

“First, she’s getting old, now she’s ill as well! That’s it, I’m filing for divorce!”

After dropping his mistress from the car, Butcher bid her a tender farewell and drove home.

My now ex-husband hailed from another town long ago. Back in his youth, he’d been sent here for compulsory

“Leave me be! I never promised to marry you! And I don’t even know whose child that is.

My mother-in-law’s name is Margaret Whitcombe. From the very first glance, she struck me as a woman of

**Saturday.** Seven in the morning. The one day in weeks I could finally sleep in, burrow under the duvet

**Diary Entry – 19th April** My husband’s sister has always believed that spoiling her children is our

Six Months Under One Roof with My Mother-in-Law: How She Tore Our Marriage Apart Six months ago, my life