When you are in a long relationship, you get used to the person you are with that sometimes we get too comfortable. Too comfortable that we lose track of the intimacy and romance. We never think of losing our partners because we have been with them for a long time; and yet the opposite is quite true. We are slowly losing them. Even the very basic "i love you" gets lost. Everything is such a routine that nothing is so special anymore.
At some point tho, it will just hit one of partners. One will wake up sad and start to question, is this what a relationship really looks like? The other will still go on, thinking everything is fine and where it should be.
How sad. Even talking is just a temporary fix as we go back doing the same shits again. Ahh, when no one is feeling special, important and loved anymore, when do we say it is over?