Most marriages begin with the intoxication of romantic euphoria…

Then they start to feel the effects of gravity, and the feeling climate changes…

Delirious

Delighted

Devoted

Different

Disillusioned

Disappointed

Dissatisfied

Dismayed

Discouraged

Disgusted

Depressed

Despairing

Detached

Divorced

The slide downward into married misery is usually quiet, private, and slow.

We don’t tell others how bad it can feel, and we won’t even be really honest with our mate, since we think that will make things worse. And because it only gets a little worse over a long period of time, we tend to let the negative feelings accumulate.

We slide down the D-Escalator in slow motion, suffering in silence most of the time.

That’s why it takes six years, on average, for couples to seek help for their marriage after they both know that something needs to change.

Six years is a slow slide down into married misery…

Nobody starts a marriage expecting to slide into misery, but that’s where we end up unless we learn how to defy gravity.