A famous author wrote, " I have a thousand reasons to leave, and not one reason to stay, his wife replied, stay any way. It is easy to fall in love, and most of the time in a new relationship, we have a thousand reasons to stay with our chosen one, that warm feeling you get when looking deep into your loves eyes, the magic in a touch of her skin, or holding her hand. The endless conversations that keep us engaged. Kisses that seem to last forever, the smell of her hair and scent of her skin. All of the things you have discovered with her and the thought of many things yet to come. There is a reason that marriages fail over fifty percent of the time, as you move into life and its challenges, you become occupied with handling each challenge that presence itself, often failing to communicate with the one you chose to travel down lifes path together. You are less and less your self, the one she committed herself to months or years before, the less and less you communicate, and the increase in issues leaves a bitter taste in both of your mouths. She seems to you more distant, less happy as she moves through each day, and she notices that you seem less happy as we, but you do not talk about your challenges. Soon you both secretly feel that you have nothing in common and you begin to share your imperfect view of your partner with friends, loved ones, parents, work friends, and they begin to second guess often wrong why you may have drifted apart. If only you new there personal agenda as they spouted these negative perceptions of you spouses conduct, thus leading your own imagination to stray, and in most cases imagine the worst about the one you promised for better or worse, just months or years earlier. I have spent my life understanding the human condition, and I have learned that even the most innocent sounding confidante often has a private agenda and that agenda taints their personal view of your situation. So, you are faced with a challenge, what do I need to do in order to be happy again? "I can see a thousand reasons to leave and I don't see any reason to stay, so stay anyway". You have made a life commitment to your partner. In our society it has become so easy to run away from your challenges, and move toward divorce, after all there are many fish in the sea. Your man has a female friend coaxing him to leave you, after all, she would be a better friend and lover for him, she has a male friend that tells you he know best, and your man has been cheating on you, he is a guy, and he should know how guys are. Don't ever believe that so called friends will always give you gualified advice that is free from personal bias and private agenda. The only thing that works, is to roll up your sleeves and have the hard conversations, dealing with the problems together and finding mutually beneficial solutions to each problem, I have never had girl friends when with my chosen mate, just as I have diswayed my spouse from having male friends, as they tend to want what they can't have and become opperatunists waiting to sabatoge your relationship when the first chance presence itself, humans are the only animal in the world that is born with the enate ability to manipulate a situation while appearing to have your best interest in mind. So, in closing, and with 33 years of experience in these situations both professionally and privately, I say "there is a thousand reasons to leave, and no apparent reason to stay, so, stay anyway."