15 Signs That Your Marriage Is Almost Over

Marriage is a very beautiful thing. It binds two special people together to live a lifetime by each other's side. Marriage isn't all sunny days, blue skies, and daisies. Marriage is tough work. Those who stay 100% committed to their marriage and do everything possible to keep your bond strong and love alive, I commend you. You are warriors who fight for their own special love. As much as there are successful happy marriages, there are also failures of marriage. You never know who it will happen to. Sometimes these things just happen. This article will be a good base or foundation to see where your marriage stands.

One big factor to pay attention to during your marriage is your sex life with your partner. A red flag is when your sex life starts coming to a halt. You guys aren't having sex as often or are as emotionally involved anymore. Sex is one major way to show your partner love and when this stops, you can almost guarantee something is wrong. Either the romance is dead or the marriage is failing or broken in some type of way that affects the sexual connection between you two.

Within a marriage or any relationship, communication is key. This is extremely significant when it comes to emotions and how you each individually feel. When someone is withdrawing talking about anything related to the way they feel, there might be some sign towards broken or failing communication. When someone doesn't want to participate emotionally in a marriage, I would consider that marriage dead and over.

If your partner is not willing to put in the effort and work to fight and make this marriage work. I hate to tell you darling, but they no longer want to be apart of your marriage commitment. To them, your marriage is over and most likely dead to them. They probably want to end and leave the relationship but haven't thought of an appropriate way for them to break it to you. Sorry, sweetie.

Sometimes the worst thing your partner can do is seek love and attention elsewhere. This can come in all forms. They can devote themselves fully to work and so you'll see less of them. They can take on the most popular option that most people do when they are no longer invested in the relationship and that is CHEAT. Yepp, cheat. This includes physical cheating or just excessive flirting and touching.

Some people aren't good at confrontations. Some people hate hurting others, leaving them or ending relationships, so they turn the unhappiness and unfulfilling feeling onto themselves. This can be them turning to alcohol or drugs. They may not know how to talk about their feelings so these might be the best alternatives in their eyes.

Like I have said before, communication is key! So if your partner refuses to communicate and just leaves the argument or avoids any serious conversations, they're most likely ready to be over with this relationship.

If you or your partner are fantasizing about being with other people, living a life without being married to them, or just being your own individual without your partner, this most likely means you're over being a married person. Marriage requires monogamy. Depending on your marriage of course. So if this definitely doesn't describe how you're feeling at the moment, maybe you should consider discussing this with your partner.

If you've come down to listing pros and cons about your marriage, you should definitely consider which one outweighs the other. If the bads outweigh the good, I can guarantee that your marriage is on the path to being over.

This goes with some of the previous signs. When your partner doesn't share what is on their mind, you can almost guarantee that your relationship is over or failing. They don't want to share who they are with you. That simply can't be especially since you two are in a marriage. In a marriage, there are no secrets. You speak your mind because your partner loves it when you do.

Ah, defense mechanisms. So spiteful, yet so protective. In some cases that is. This isn't as positive as you think it is when it comes to failing marriages. Defense mechanisms can be anything. For example, when you express how you feel or a certain concern and your partner gets overly defensive. Or do you and your spouse dismiss each other's needs? Do you guys criticize each other's beliefs? If you aren't listening and using negative defense mechanisms to solve a problem, you will get nowhere. That is not how you solve a problem.

This correlates with the previous sign. If it isn't both of you and it's only one of you making the marriage worse, you are more likely solving these marital issues on your own. There is no effort coming from your partner to get over these issues and live a happier marriage.

This sign is a major red flag. With any marriage, there are certain desires that need to be met, by both parties of course. In a marriage, both parties need to individually put 100% into the relationship. So if you are desiring your partner more emotionally, physically, sexually, etc. and they aren't reciprocating the same feelings, this marriage is definitely on a path to being over.

Arguing and disagreeing on life is probably one of the main factors why marriages don't work or last. If all you and your partner do is argue, I mean not to be rude, but why are you two together? Sure, every relationship goes through their ups and downs, every relationship isn't perfect, and you tend to argue here and there. But if your relationship consists of nothing but negative conversations and arguing, maybe it's best that you guys get out of this relationship and leave and find your lives elsewhere.

If you find yourself questioning your marriage or questioning yourself if you really want your relationship to be over then maybe you do. I feel like this is a very common sign when someone is unhappy in their marriage.

Being in a marriage is hard. You have to maintain not only your personal life but you have to maintain your marriage and love life. You can't always be busy. That's when time management comes into play. If your partner means a lot to you and you want your marriage to work, you have to find a really great balance between your life and your married life. You can not leave your significant other out. So if your partner never wants to spend time with you or never wants to schedule quality time with you, maybe they don't think you're that important to them in the end.

Whatever you end up deciding, in the end, it is your life. No one or nothing should tell you how to live it. If you are unhappy, change it. Whether it be to fix your marriage or leave it. You'll know when you're supposed to. My best wishes go out to you regardless. Keep smiling and always know that love will always be with you.