How High-Achieving Couples Quietly Lose Connection

Some couples break. Others slowly drift apart.

The high-functioning ones are often the hardest to spot—on the outside, they’re thriving. But on the inside, something tender is missing.

She sat across from me in my office with her shoulders tight and her jaw clenched. Still in her workout clothes, a full face of makeup, and phone on vibrate.

“I don’t know how we got here,” she whispered.

They’d built a …