Fleishman Is in Trouble Quotes by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

The only way he had survived in his marriage, with a wife who not only made about fifteen times his really quite good doctor salary but who, the moment she surpassed him on the earn-o-meter, found herself completely disgusted by his earning ability, was that he made a big show of only barely tolerating the perks of the money. He allowed Rachel to b

“But this isn’t about our marriage, Toby. This is about me. They didn’t promote me, because I didn’t tell them I was pregnant.” “That’s bullshit. They didn’t make you partner, because you didn’t sleep with Matt Klein and because they don’t fundamentally respect you.” Her response came like a boomerang. “Fuck you, Toby.”

She had so much and wanted to keep it all. She wanted to leave the father of her children without any relic of the last fifteen years. But that wasn’t the worst part about this. The worst part about this, other than all the other worst parts about this, was that it put Toby into a position where he had to actually think about what he wanted.

Rachel free from him was. She had abandoned him. She’d been cruel to him. She had denied him love and respect and self-esteem.