Signs of the End

When a relationship is dying you can hear it, see it, and most of all feel it. You could be sitting in a room next to the one you love and to an outsider everything would look normal. But at closer inspection one or both of you are leaning away from one another and avoiding any kinds of contact. I hear it, see it, feel it. How do you keep a relationship alive when everything it used to be and you used to love about it is no longer there. Do you stay because you remember how good it was and somehow hope that what was and what is will somehow become one again? What happens when you can't even have a conversation without arguing and you fight while trying to be intimate. When one of you hurts and the other one no longer even attempts to comfort? How do you fix it when it breaks? How do you make it better when everything you do makes it worse? When you mourn the death of something beautiful and your asked what you're bawling about? What changes so much that in the beginning you can talk forever or not talk at all but feel content? And how you can't get any closer because everywhere you go you touch, a hand touch, a gaze, a kiss? And then you don't touch for days, weeks, months. I want to fix it, it's worth fixing. When it's whole it's beautiful and something I want to last forever.