Psychology says the best predictor of divorce arrives long before the conflict does, because most marriages don't end in fighting—they end in two people who quietly stopped turning toward each other

Psychology says the best predictor of divorce arrives long before the conflict does, because most marriages don't end in fighting—they end in two people who quietly stopped turning toward each other

My husband and I were driving home from somewhere when we passed a billboard we’d seen a hundred times. There was a time when that sign would have made us both laugh, a reference to something stupid and specific that had become shorthand between us years ago. I saw it, and I felt the old reflex, the pull to say something, and I looked over—and then I just didn’t. Not because it wouldn’t be funny. Because I couldn’t remember the last time somethi…