In her final letter to her marriage counselor, a woman reveals the truth about her ongoing divorce and her distaste for her religious husband.

When loving each other becomes inconvenient, a man separates from his wife of 20 years and struggles to realize that the end of marriage must also bring an end to the life they were supposed to live together.

After her husband leaves her, a middle-aged woman reminisces about their years of marriage. Encouraged by her therapist, who thinks that her husband is going through a temporary midlife crisis, the woman waits for her husband and is convinced that he will come back.

A married man in New York City must try to get a female friend to reciprocate the love he has for her while helping her through her ongoing separation with her husband.

In 1960s America, a woman marries a selfish man who eventually accuses her of causing his mental illness and abandons her. She then begins to live her life sexually freed and embark on friendships and affairs centered around her own desires.

After having an affair with a married man, a woman divorces her old husband and remarries, but she struggles to keep up with the compounded responsibilities of mother- and step-motherhood.

A woman in Ireland finally gets to be with her long-lost love, but only after he is tragically made a widower when his previous wife passes from an illness, leading the new wife to compare herself to the perfect, kind, dead one.

A married woman in London starts an affair with another married man. Together they contemplate her history and the murder that drove a wedge between her and her husband years ago.

A woman gets married and chooses to leave her busy job as a stenographer. She soon becomes restless in the daily short-lived tedium of housewifery and begins developing feelings for a new man.

A wife and mother struggles with her mental health as she endures immense stress from trying to fix up the family's new house while preserving her marriage.