I recently came across someone who said, "I stopped having sex with my husband for 8 months and never told him why." That sentence stuck with me. Not because it's rare. It's more common than most people admit out loud. What stuck with me was the second half of it: she never told him why. Eight months of distance, and not one real conversation about what was actually going on underneath it. I want to break down what was likely happening in that marriage, because it's a pattern