How to Poison Your Marriage in 3 Easy Steps

By: American Decency Staff

In marriage, there are wounds that are instant; their devastation felt upon impact—a betrayal discovered, an addiction revealed. The pain is immediate and disorienting.

Then there are wounds that slide under the radar until their damage is too extensive to hide. It’s a deterioration that moves slowly, toxins steadily seeping into the bloodstream of what was once a healthy body. The more it is absorbed, the more decay and dissension it produces, and the vitality that once characterized the marriage is replaced with bitterness and resentment.

I don’t know what happened, we say. How did something that used to work so well come to a place as hard and exhausting as this?

We’ll never find a one-size-fits-all answer to the question of how relationships begin to break, but there are a few guaranteed poisons that will do nothing but leech the life out of marriage.

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