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What Is A "Silent Divorce"? Experts Explain Why Couples Stay Married Anyway

Westend61/Getty ImagesIn my social circle, I know at least three women who are currently in a very specific kind of marriage. It looks OK from the outside: they post pictures of themselves as a family on Facebook, and they sit in the bleachers together at kids’ ballgames. But when these women describe what their relationships really look like from the inside, an entirely different picture emerges. What you see are two people who may be sitting on the same couch, but they’re very much… separate. They scroll on their phones and speak to each other in clipped sentences that mostly concern the kid...