Smiling when people ask how things are going. Posting the happy couple photos. Playing along when friends talk about their weekend plans with their husbands like it's the most natural thing in the world.

Meanwhile, you're dying inside.

You know something fundamental is broken in your marriage. You can feel the distance. The disconnect. The way you've become strangers living under the same roof.

But every time you get close to facing it, you find another reason to look away:

"Maybe things will get better on their own..."

"I should give it more time..."

"What if I'm being too dramatic?"

Here's the cold, hard truth: Avoiding the decision doesn't make it disappear. It just makes the limbo last longer.