Here’s a quickie pointing out his interesting Modern Love column about a woman who avoided divorce by simply shutting up and sitting back.

In her column, Laura Munson says that her husband, in the throes of a midlife crisis, asked her for a divorce. She said she knew he really didn’t want one. But instead of counseling and talking, she hung back. She gave him space. He roamed. And then he came back.

Munson is careful to say this approach might not work for everyone, but it did work for her. What do you think? Should more couples on the verge of fracture try this laid back approach?

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