How Do You Know When To Leave A Marriage (Important)
How do you know when to leave a marriage? Is it time? Can we get back to what we once were?
There’s no hard set rules as to when it’s time to leave a marriage. Under all the layers of daily life and small arguments you’re both the same people you were when you first got married and I’ve seen a lot of marriages come back from the very brink of divorce.
We’ll get into it in a little more depth but if you want the short answer: It’s time to leave a marriage when both of you are no longer working at it (one person can still right the ship enough) or there’s been physical abuse.
Every marriage is going to be different in some way, shape or form. Hopefully the advice here will help give you some guidance but if you want some more specific advice then take a free marriage assessment quiz. It can help fix the underlying problems, not just address the symptoms.
One of the very best things in life is falling in love. Love is truly a beautiful thing and when that love leads to a marriage, nothing else could ever compare. Marriage is the highest form of commitment you can have with someone, knowing that you get to spend the rest of your life loving your significant other. However, marriages don’t always work out the way we intend it to. Just as relationships fall apart, the same goes for marriages. In this article, we’ll be talking about how do you know when to leave a marriage.
There’s a saying that goes with the implication that love is a choice rather than a feeling- and this is entirely accurate, but only to a point. Love is a decision that you must make if you want the marriage to work. When one of you stops trying, that’s when a marriage falls apart. Just like relationships, marriages are more difficult than what meets the eye. You’ll know when to leave the marriage when one of you stops trying altogether and when the marriage doesn’t seem to be working anymore.
It’s so important to realize that in order for a marriage to work, both of you need to put in the effort to make it work. Even as you grow fond of each other, never become complacent in your marriage as that’s the fastest way to lose each other. Always choose to prioritize the other and help them in every way that you can. Even when it’s the easiest thing to stop trying, complacency is not an option in marriage.
Asides from the things mentioned above, you’ll know to leave the marriage when your spouse is no longer faithful- both to you and to the marriage. Marriage is the strongest form of commitment that exists and when they stop being faithful to you, the point of marriage no longer exists. The very point of a marriage to have someone by your side- a partner, a best friend, and a life partner.
When they’re no longer all of these things, the marriage loses its meaning altogether. This is why it’s so important in a marriage that you never stop trying, on both your parts. It’s so important that you never stop reminding one another how much you love them and to actually make them feel loved. Marriage is an investment and when you no longer feel that you’re being appreciated, that’s when it’s time to walk out of the marriage.
In conclusion, I hope this article was able to shed a light on a marriage falling apart. At the end of the day, it’s really all about choosing each other and deciding to love one another every day. Marriage isn’t always about the highlights, but it’s about sticking to your commitment to your spouse. A marriage stops working when one- or the both of you- stops trying altogether. Unfaithfulness or cheating doesn’t just happen out of nowhere- the root cause is one stops choosing the other.
