Colin has been trying to be more supportive of his wife. despite his efforts they fight a lot and things don't look promising between them, although he feels he can turn things around. colin is in the phase of emotional divorce.

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Explanation:

Emotional divorce is the psychological process in which spouses tend to separate their emotions from their marriage. It takes place in a situation when they start to feel that their marriage life is not going normal. The process starts even before the actual divorce or may not happen even after divorce. The first stage of emotion divorce is denial in which spouses try to deny the realistic situation and tend to control what's happening in their life. They try to put things back to track in the hope to control the fate of their marriage.

john locke and voltaire