Existential Memes and Relationships: The Hidden Shift Couples Don’t See (opens in new tab)

At some point—and no one announces it—relationships stop breaking. They start fading. No fight. No betrayal. No moment you can point to later and say, that’s when it went wrong. Just a gradual shift where the relationship becomes less central, less alive, less… necessary. De-vitalized. In conducting science-based couples therapy, this is the subtle state that risked getting missed most often. Not because it’s rare. Because it’s easy to live inside. If you’re reading this out of curiosity, kee...