Sharon Pope explains what happens when one partner feels stuck in a marriage and why divorce can sometimes be a good reminder for setting boundaries. 

If you cannot live without your marriage, you cannot navigate within it. – Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.

My client is a full-time nurse and her husband is an executive who is both over-working and over-drinking. She suspects it’s his way of avoiding the difficulties inside the marriage and the realities of having three young children.