Tag: unhappy marriage

• Resentment vs Indifference: Only One of Them Actually Ends a Marriage

  Ask most people which marriage is in more trouble, the one where the couple row twice a week or the one where nobody’s raised their voice since 2019, and they’ll point at the rowing couple every time. Slammed doors. The sulk that lasts till Thursday. The “fine” that means anything but. That looks like a…

• The Seven-Year Itch Is Real — It Just Can’t Read a Calendar

  Marilyn Monroe has a lot to answer for. The Seven Year Itch gave the feeling its name in 1955, and seven decades later it remains the one piece of marriage folklore everyone can recite without thinking. Somewhere around the seventh anniversary, so the story goes, the shine wears off, the eye starts wandering, and a…