In many cases, Feuerman explains, marriages suffer from communication issues that one partner recognizes and the other refuses to acknowledge.
That said, unhappy marriages are pretty common, says Marni Feuerman, PsyD, a marriage therapist in Boca Raton and author of Ghosted and Breadcrumbed: Stop Falling for Unavailable Men and Get Smart About Healthy Relationships.
But sometimes, recognizing that your marriage has gone from heart eyes to anger-or worse, indifference-can be tough to spot. The chances of ending up in a lasting marriage are essentially based on a coin toss.