Subtle Signs You May Be Experiencing What Experts Call a ‘Problem Marriage’

Being involved in a problem marriage can effect your life in a negative way.  These are the most reported symptoms you will notice right before sweet matrimonial bliss turns into a bitter legal nightmare:

• Your spouse inconveniences you, or asks you to do something that does not immediately give you instant gratification.
• You want to do something, your spouse doesn’t want to do it, but your spouse won’t do it anyway.
• Your spouse shrugs off or disagrees with one of your suggestions.
• You and your spouse do not have the EXACT same needs, wants, and interests.
• Your spouse has a friend or coworker that is not also your friend or coworker.
• You find it difficult to visit with your spouse’s family.
• Your spouse is reluctant to attend events attended by your family.
• Your spouse does not feel comfortable allowing you to control every aspect of his or her life at any given time even though you have demonstrated that you are superior to all others at every endeavor.
• You suffer from minor stress related to your married life.
• You are a Republican, and your spouse is a Republican or a Democrat.
• Your spouse disagrees with one or more of your purchases.
• Your spouse wants to pursue a career path that you have not approved of.
• You have any disagreement with your spouse that results in an argument, especially if the subject of the discussion concerns the raising of children.
• You don’t like something that your spouse just positively loves.
• Something that absolutely gets your saddles flying does nothing at all for your poor little misguided spouse.
• You call your spouse a total jerk and he or she just shrugs his or her shoulders and gives you the “get out of here” hand gesture until you end up smashing various fragile items of community property.
• You have considered possibly seeking advice from any of the well-known marriage gurus of the world.
• When you want to get physical, your spouse is arguing politics on the internet.  When you want to surf the web to lookup important historic facts, your spouse wants to bone.  Your spouse may also not know the difference between historic and historical, so beware of that potential stumbling block.
• You notice that you are spending less time making love than you used to but also realize that you don’t care.
• Little things bother you but not quite as much as big things.
• You are a Christian and your spouse is very religious or not at all religious.
• You have a disagreement with your spouse concerning what items to keep and which to throw out.
• You find that your spouse is not as cool as your friends.
• Your spouse’s full name is Donald John Trump or William James O’Reilly.
• You find that you do not like where your spouse puts things, as if there is either no system at all or too many considerations involved from the start.
• You become involved in a religious revival designed to save the world that only requires that you donate all of your earthly possessions (a meager fee when compared to the rewards), your spouse refuses to sign the paperwork.
• Your spouse joins a cult and expects you to also observe their strange rituals, like eating a certain fowl-bird every so often around unknown cousins from other towns.