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You can share a bed, a budget and a surname and still feel like housemates.

There is a quiet kind of marriage problem that does not look like a problem. No shouting. No dramatic betrayal. The bills are paid, the children are fed, the calendar is managed. And yet both of you feel strangely alone.

Therapists and relationship writers call it roommate syndrome: when a couple functions well as a household but has stopped functioning as a pair. Conversations are transactional. Affection is rare. Weekends are about errands. Everyone is polite and nobody is close.

It develops gradually, which is exactly why it is easy to miss. It is also common, and it is reversible when both people notice it and respond.

Start small. Ten minutes a day with no phones. One real question each evening, like "What was the best and hardest part of your day?" Touch that is not a prelude to something else. One thing a week that is just for the two of you, not for the household.

Your relationship may be stable. It can still be warmer. Do not wait for a crisis to ask for more than logistics.

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