This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

Today, we're talking about why relationships fail and what you can do to protect yours.

That is a somewhat sinister version of the song Ship of Fools, originally written and performed by World Party.

This time we're hearing Nocturn Blues version of it.

Interesting band with lots of good stuff you can can learn more about Nocturn Blue on their

bandcamp page, nocturnblue.bantam.com.

Good stuff.

And oh, so appropriate for our topic today, my friends, especially this part.

You will pay tomorrow. especially this part.

Without warning in mind, let's dive in.

On today's episode of the podcast, we're talking about a topic that is very challenging,

one that people don't like to think about, but one that is vitally important for you to know about and to be thinking about really deliberately.

And that is why marriages fail, why relationships end. Personally, I'm a marriage

counselor, I'm a psychologist, I have sat with so many couples, and many of whom very eager and

motivated to repair their marriages, repair their relationships, we do great work. And over the years, I have sat with

many couples whose relationships were ending. And I can tell you that every single one of them

went into their relationships with the best of intentions on their wedding day. They meant everything they said about sharing the rest of

their lives together, till death do us part. And they meant it. But then their relationships

eroded slowly over time. It fell apart. They kept falling apart. And by the time they got to my office,

they were past the point of no return. There wasn't the fabric left to kind of knit things back

together again. And the tragedy of virtually all of these situations, and I have felt this many times sitting on the

couch in my therapy office with these couples is if only you had seen what was happening

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