If you’re curious about signs your husband is slowly giving up on your marriage, then, you need to read this piece to the end.
Breakups are not sudden occurrences.
They’re usually a series of actions and inactions that pile up over time, and lead to the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.
A couple may be so in love with and all over each other at the beginning of their marriage.
However, as time passes, they’ll notice that they have started drifting apart.
If nothing is done about the gap between them, it’ll keep widening to the extent that it can’t be fixed anymore.
That’s when the breakup happens.
Then, people sit back and wonder how they went from being all lovey-dovey to having nothing to talk about with their spouses.
The good thing is that there’s always signs of impending disaster before it happens.
But sometimes, people are too carried away or fixated on other things that they don’t notice these signs.
However, anyone who values their marriage and wants it to stand the test of time must pay keen attention to the way their spouse acts towards and around them.
This article discusses the signs your husband is slowly giving up on your marriage.
Enjoy the read.
8 Signs Your Husband Is Slowly Giving Up On Your Marriage
1. Decline or absence of intimacy
I’m referring to the absence or decline in both emotional and physical intimacy.
If a woman senses a negative shift in her husband’s energy towards her and their marriage, she might be observant enough to notice a gradual decrease in intimacy between them.
For instance, they no longer have heart to heart conversations.
Lately, they are not lounging in comfortable silence with each other anymore.
Whenever there’s silence between them, it feels like something is wrong somewhere.
Then, he may be the type who likes to initiate physical touches whenever they’re around each other.
He might love cuddling, hugging, pecking, kissing, giving back or shoulder rubs, and foot massages, etc.
However, the rate at which he does all these has reduced.
The wife might even notice that he flinches when she touches him as if he’s irritated by her touch.
Then, there is a decrease or total absence of sex.
It’s more like this man no longer sees his wife.
And if she makes a move on him, he’ll turn her down by giving excuses such as tiredness or not being in the mood.
2. Picking fights and arguments unnecessarily
One of the signs your husband is slowly giving up on your marriage is that he picks arguments and fights over the tiniest things.
It seems like he’s irritated by and angry at everything you do.
Nothing you do pleases him anymore.
He’s already on the edge because he’s tired of the marriage.
As a result, little things set him off.
You’ll be surprised that he’ll pick an argument and have a serious fight with you over something that can be easily overlooked.
It is what it is.
He’s probably looking for a quick way out of the union.
3. Disinterest in having conversations with you
A sudden loss of interest in having conversations with you is one of the signs your husband is slowly giving up on your marriage.
You’ll notice that he shies away from having conversations with you, especially when you’re the initiator.
The best he can do is to give you short or one-word replies.
He doesn’t make small talks with you as well, and shuts down if he senses that you want to go further with the conversation.
In addition, he’ll stop asking about your day, health, and general wellbeing.
Even when you ask after his wellbeing, his answers are straight to the point.
If he’s slowly giving up on your marriage, he might aim to cut down or close the communication channel between both of you.
He might be very much aware of the importance of communication in every relationship, and is capitalising on starving the communication as an effective way of killing the bond between you two.
What an intentional man in a negative way!
4. Not interested in resolving conflicts
In line with picking fights and arguments unnecessarily, one of the signs your husband is slowly giving up on your marriage is that he won’t be interested in conflict resolution.
For someone who is getting tired of a marriage, conflicts are his happy place.
He already wants to be away from and if possible, not be in talking terms with his wife.
Trust him to hold on to any conflict, no matter how little, for as long as possible.
He’s simply using the conflict as a cover to enjoy not talking to his wife and spending time away from her.
So, even if she approaches him with an olive branch, he’ll not be interested in resolving the issues between them.
5. Not wanting to be in the same space as you
A man who is slowly giving up on his marriage will avoid being in the same space as his wife.
He’ll stop totally, or reduce the rate at which they go out together as a couple.
If he’s an introvert who usually doesn’t go out, he’ll suddenly develop interest in dressing up, taking strolls, hanging out often, and generally becoming more outgoing whenever his wife is in the house.
Even if they need to be together for some time, he’ll look like he’s enduring her presence and can’t wait to be apart from her.
You might find him dashing out the door at the end of whatever it is that’s keeping them together.
The idea is to spend as much time as possible away from her.
He prefers to be alone than spend time with her.
Anywhere else but with her is his new favourite place.
How pathetic!
6. Doesn’t keep to his words anymore
When a man is getting tired of his marriage, he’ll stop keeping to his promises.
He starts going back on the words he once stood by.
The truth is that he no longer cares about his wife or her feelings.
It makes him to feel less concerned about how she’ll feel when he does certain things that’ll hurt her.
And he’ll do those things often to hurt her just because he knows that he can.
Due to his lack of love for her, he feels like there’s no need for him to go out of his way to please her or get things done for her anymore.
7. Starts being sarcastic and mean towards you
A man who is giving up on his marriage will start treating his wife with disrespect.
It might be in mild or obvious doses, but disrespect will creep into his interactions with her.
He’ll talk to her in sarcastic and demeaning ways.
For everything she says, he has a sarcastic response waiting.
Add paying her back-handed compliments to the mix too.
All these signify a loss of the love that they once shared as a couple.
With the absence of love from the union, its opposite (hate) has reared its head and the husband cannot even hide it.
8. Says no to you more often
When someone is giving up on their marriage, they usually stop caring about the feelings of their spouse.
For a marriage to be considered wholesome and successful, the couple must make compromises and sacrifices for each other when necessary.
Doing so shows that they care, and are committed to the happiness and satisfaction of their spouse, while maintaining the peace and stability of the marriage.
Expect to hear ‘no’ more often from someone who is giving up on their marriage.
The ‘nos’ will come even in the most little things that they won’t have to break a sweat for.
For instance, they’ll decline hanging out with their spouse, helping them out around the house, sharing ideas with them for a job they’re stuck on, going to events with them, and so on.
A man who does these things is gradually detaching himself from his wife.
It’s one of the signs your husband is slowly giving up on your marriage.
