Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.
It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.