How long do you fight before you walk away (in a marriage)?

Answer 1

For as long as your heart can bear it ...for me it's been a year ...and today this ends.....20 years and five children ....Gone.....

Answer 2

Is your question about walking away during an argument or disagreement? Or walking away from the marriage?

My question is, how hard and long are you willing to fight for your marriage?

My husband and I have been in our relationship for over 17 years - first as friends, then as a couple and currently as husband and wife. We've had MANY times where one or both of us should have walked away from our relationship - but we both decided to stick it out and work together to hold our relationship, our marriage and our family together. But had we chose to walk away - we never would have made it past the first year as a couple.
Because we chose to stay together, we have 5 children and over 17 years of shared life together - filled with love and heartache, joys and sorrows, anger and delight. And many, many memories.

In order to reach the rose, you must first get past the thorns. If life were filled with only the good and happy times, we wouldn't treasure and cherish them. By enduring bad times, we learn just how precious the good times truly are.
Maybe that sounds deep and philosophical, but it happens to be the basic and simple truth.

Only you know how long you're willing to fight - only you know whether or not it's worth it. So only you can answer your question.

Best Wishes!

Answer 3

depends on if you are talking about just a fight, or fighting for a long time and walking away from a marriage. when my hubby and i fight, i walk away before i know that things are going to get really bad. on the other hand, i wouldn't walk away from my marriage unless i knew that everything you can try to make the marriage work has been exhausted.

Answer 4

After you've explored every option imaginable to strengthen and save your marriage... and then you fight just a little bit more.
No one can tell you how long to fight for your marriage. If you're fighting against your partner, or its just you fighting for it, then perhaps its time to take that walk. But if your spouse is right there with you showing an effort that he/she wants to help fix the problems, then you need to stay there and keep fighting for it.

Answer 5

Define walk away. If you mean walk away forever, that is one thing. Or just temporary till you cool down, that is another entirely.

In walking away temporarily during the argument, I will not just walk away without saying something that we, or me, needs to calm down a bit before we can continue to talk (or argue) about the subject. If you just walk away without saying something first, that can lead to another reason for anger from your partner.

In walking away forever, I would try everything possible to save the marriage first, like single and joint marriage counseling plus seeing a minister as well who also has additional training in resolving conflicts. Only after I or both of us, have looked at every angle in saving a marriage, would I walk away.

That way it leads to less regrets. You can walk away while keeping your head held high.

Answer 6

Don't walk away.

Marriage is a challenge. Life is a challenge

If you have a problem with your spouse, you talk it out. If the conversation is getting heated, then take a walk or start cleaning.

You need to succeed in everything that you do.

Answer 7

that depends upon many things. Does the fighting get physical? that is a sign that no talking is necessary and you leave. Have you tried counseling? If one of the other will not go to counseling there is no reason to continue the fighting because it is accomplishing nothing and may eventually become physical eventually. If you continue to fight over the same things or types of things over and over again with nothing being resolved, you ar both better off to get the divorce and find someone else you can love, and who will love you, without the need for fighting. Good Luck to you!!

Answer 8

Sonnet 116

by William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom:

If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Answer 9

I see no point in fighting to a marriage going.

The minute one partner makes a choice to let

you know she/he wants a divorce I'm pretty

sure it wasn't the first time he/she thought

about it. It had probably being brewing in

they're head for many months if not years to

actually come to they're conclusion that they

just had to leave. So when that unfortunate

episode happens its best to just let it go.

Answer 10

Stand up for yourself, but don't walk out until you've exhausted all possibilities.

Unless there is abuse most things can be resolved. Don't forget, men think with their penis (and that's really a fact!) so use sex to your advantage, you'll both benefit.

Good luck

Answer 11

until you can't fight anymore. Then you rest and fight some more. The key is fighting smart, not hard. Patience is everything. You can't expect microwave results.