Sometimes when our relationships end, we feel like it's a surprise...but it's not. If you are honest with yourself there are signs.
1. Your partner starts becoming overly critical about your looks, personality traits...you name it you're becoming a problem to them.
2. Small offenses become huge arguments. .."what do you mean you couldn't call because your phone went dead."
3. Their phone is turned off during the evening. ..and they are phone hogs...you know no call is left unanswered.
4. They want to spend more time hanging out with the guys.
5. They want to do things alone that you used to do as a couple.
6. They don't want to make long range plans.
7. They don't talk about what's going on at the job, or the gym or any other place they used to constantly talk about.
8. You stop going to certain places together that you used to frequent.
9. Excessive time on social media (don't forget the secret Facebook account)
10. Pronouns stop being he and she and become the more generic they or their...refer back to #7.
11. Your sex life changes, it drops because they're spread too thin or it increases because they're compensating.
12. They become.concerned about their looks and start making changes.
13. They stop answering their phone around you.
These and other signs usually mean your relationship is experiencing problems. Your partner may be detaching in some kind of way. One is not necessarily a problem...but multiples...if you ignore it you're going to have the big "surprise". And because they have already moved on by the time they cut ties...you are the one adrift.
David....
What do you mean signs? I don't see any....... Just kidding.... 'set adrift on memory bliss'
A few more...
14. Their availability decreases all of a sudden. Never available for a spur of the moment date or hook up.
15. They smell different.... you are on your own for this one.
16. Their friends treat you different. They defriend you on Facebook. When you see them in public they shy away and pretend not to notice you at all cost.
17. You argue over simple shit.... i.e. what you say jokingly to your friends about something so trivial when she is present and she later blows up about it all. Knowing that your friends are kidders just like you. My version of #2.
18. Things are not as simple as they used to be. Part of problem #17.
19. They make you start dong things alone what you used to do as a couple. My personal version of #5.
20. The drama factor becomes increases exponentially. More distance, more problems.
21. They seems more disconnected during sex. It is harder to reach that all illusive orgasm. You feel a disconnect during sex.
22. Their kids treat you differently. It almost seems that you have become a distraction or bother.
23. Things just don't feel generally right..... and they overall suck ass....