Really? They're not happy for everyone though, are they? Otherwise there wouldn't be that resentment or so many gray divorces happening.

Happily partnered people don't resent their partner. They have no need to. They're happy.

Determining to push through or ignore resentments your partner has instigates by neglect, callousness, or obtuseness for the sake of stability or for the dake of the kids is not the same as being happy. It's sacrificing your happiness for something else.

You may be okay with that. You may think it's a requirement. Maybe you can be content enough.

What you are not is happily partnered.

You'll be out and see some happily partnered couples and you will look wistfully at them. You will long for what they're so easily displaying. Because it's missing in your own life.

When the happiness of other couples tickles your envy, it's a sure sign that you're not happily married. You're on the affection starvation diet plan.