drift apart

Then, as if the clock had started up again, the men and women cautiously reconfigured themselves into increasingly passionate couple dancing, only to drift apart with three of the women left crumpled, detritus-like, on the floor.

And how do you make sure you don't drift apart again every time the going gets tough?

If you don't, your lives may drift apart, which would be sad for you both..

Richard Kane, founder and director of National Marriage Week, said: 'Couples who drift apart do so because time together is pressured and unrewarding.

Then they drift apart for two decades until bartender Suzette (Hawn) goes in search of Vinnie, only to find she has reinvented herself and buried her past.

The discovery suggests that dipterocarps have existed for much longer than previously thought--even before the split of ancient landmasses over 80 million years ago, when South America and Africa began to drift apart, the group asserts.

It is as if they were buoyed by an invisible body of water in which they bob and dip, bump and abut, overlap and drift apart. Imagine looking down from a dock into a littered harbor in which natural and unnatural debris floats at slightly different levels amidst a thin film of spilled gasoline and motor oil.

"People finish bands and drift apart. We definitely have drifted apart."

As people grow up, move away, have families or just drift apart, they lose friendships at the rate of 1.2 a year.

Shapiro says that once recombination between the X and Y was suppressed, they were free to drift apart evolutionarily.

Joking aside, I think you run the risk of living separate lives at the weekends, which in turn could make you drift apart and spell disaster for your relationship.

"We just started to drift apart, probably from about the beginning of the year.

Although this relationship is very important to both of us, I'm scared we'll drift apart.

If you want results, you both have to put some effort in because, until you do, as you rightly say, you will drift apart.

We used to live almost next door and had been seeing each other for nearly a year but I'm worried the distance may mean we'll drift apart. What are our chances of staying together?