The Quiet Kind of Lonely
Most marriage conversations assume something's broken - conflict, betrayal, a big blowup. This episode is about the marriages that look fine from the outside and still feel a little empty on the inside.
Angie talks about the quiet kind of distance that creeps into a long marriage. Not a crisis, just a slow drift into "good roommates" who love each other but haven't really met each other in a while. She shares her own threshold moment of noticing it, and why you don't need a crisis to make your marriage a priority again.
In this episode:
Why "quiet" is harder to name than an obvious problem
What it looks like to be good roommates instead of true partners
The threshold moment that made Angie stop and pay attention
A reflection question to sit with this week
You can connect with Angie at angie@angieschaffer.com, follow on IG @awakenwithangie and on Substack at The Threshold.