I’m always looking for what will make me whole. What will make me happy? Somewhere along the way I started to think it wasn’t Helen anymore. She hasn’t changed. Her laugh is still the one...

That’s how it started: a series of small hurts and excuses between two people that built up slowly, widening over time to form a vast and yawning divide.

Sometimes the comfort of being in a relationship lulls you into mundane complacency; you become irrelevant in each other’s lives. We call this phenomenon ‘growing apart’.