Quote: some people out there simply don't take anything short of walking out the door as a serious sign that there are problems within a marriage.
My STBX thought that we had a great marriage because it met all of his needs and expectations. When I pressed for my needs and expectations to be met by him, he built a huge wall between us. Since I moved in with mutual friends for a couple of months, he thought that I had betrayed him by revealing all of the pain that I had sufferred for years by him being oblivious to the romance and intimacy which is critical to maintining a healthy marriage.
Sometimes walking out does nothing to wake them up at all. They just deny that they are part of the problems and refuse to try to change things to make the marriage work. Be prepared for this type of reaction, too.
