What Are the Triggers for “Quiet Quitting” In Marriage?
Because not everyone can afford to leave a marriage.
I think that we can all agree we’re increasingly hearing about quiet quitting to grasp the concept well enough to extrapolate to other areas than the workplace. As you all know, the concept emerged mainly regarding the workplace as a means to express the lack of engagement and passion in doing one’s work; however, as we will see in the following, it’s not restricted to it.
People have debated the concept long and wide, eventually splitting into two teams. Some argued against quiet quitting as a cheating mechanism, dishonest towards one's employer, while the other team defended its proponents on claims of legitimacy. In the end, they said, you're merely doing your job, nothing more, nothing less, so why do we need to fabricate a name for something so common that's been with us since … well, always?
But don’t be misled.
This is not a story about workplace struggles — it speaks instead of the tough reality of oh, so many marriages, including my own, where quiet quitters have long existed but didn’t have a name to represent them so far.
So, without further ado, let’s see what takes us there and what options we have as quiet quitters to navigate through our…
