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End the marriage or stay and try

User Profile: Lilo68
Lilo68 September 13th, 2024

How do you know you are at the end of a relationship and it won’t work anymore?


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User Profile: jacek73
jacek73 September 13th, 2024

@Lilo68 Hello. The shortest answer is: you can never know. Every relationship is different.

Did you try a couple therapy? Had some calm and honest conversation? Tried to negotiate?

For me the red flag, being a signal to end the relationship would be, for example, when your partner goes deeper into an alcohol or drug addiction, repeated cheating, or when there is a physical, sexual or psychical violence, causing danger to the spouse and the kids.

In my opinion it's a double responsibility to myself:

I am responsible if I am not putting an end to a relationship which is devastating me.

But also:

I am responsible if I am prematurely breaking the relationship that could still last when we both tried to repair it - also responsible for the harm I might have made to other people.

So, you see, there are no shortcuts here.

User Profile: toughTiger6481
toughTiger6481 September 13th, 2024

@Lilo68

How do you feel?  ...the opposite of love is apathy ... not hate.   if you feel nothing it is over 

do you see what you had before do you have good moments?. ... is all that is holding you there are memories or obligations? 

Marriage to work need both people working if one is holding it together. do you communicate without walking on eggshells? adding a counselor only helps if both parties are willing to work. 

User Profile: amicableTree1761
amicableTree1761 September 13th, 2024

I am been married for only 1.5 years and i am not able to adjust with the change. And i dont think i can. Having constant fights with my husband. And my mood changes drastically and normaly become angry.


User Profile: carefulYard887
carefulYard887 September 14th, 2024

The efforts and love from his side has stopped and even you have a constant wish to leave the relationship

User Profile: trueconfidant123
trueconfidant123 September 14th, 2024

@Lilo68

Hello. I hope you are doing well.

A relationship is a mutual partnership built on a lot of factors between two individuals. It sustains as long as one or both of the parties involved keep trying to maintain that spark alive. Once that effort starts to diminish, the base weakens. The very existence of the bond breaks and leads you to the end of it.