There's always something going on. Things to organise, responsibilities to manage, plans to make, everyday life to get through.
And somewhere amongst it all, the relationship itself may have started to feel different from the one you wanted.
Perhaps you find yourselves having the same conversations without anything really changing. Sometimes they turn into arguments or sometimes you avoid them altogether because you already know how they'll end.
And even when you do talk, it can feel like you're having two different conversations. You're each trying to explain something that matters to you, but somehow you end up further apart than before.
It's hard to find your way back to each other when neither of you feels properly understood.