A troubled relationship can be very painful. There are numerous signs that indicate it is probably time to end things. However, you may also find that it is worth giving things another try.

Here are 5 signs that it is time to end your relationship.

Sign #1: Your words to each other lack a tone of basic respect: In Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book, “Blink,” the author describes how certain marriage counselors can watch a videotape of any given couple talking and predict almost instantly and with great accuracy whether the relationship will last.

Sometimes when a heart is broken it’s best to wallow in the sadness with a few sad love quotes, take a day to yourself and then let time help you get over it. If you’ve been hit hard and your heart is in need of mending, here are 12 sad love quotes to help you with the pity party period of mourning.

1. “Though it’s been a while now, I can still feel so much pain. Like the knife that cuts you, the would heals. But the scar — that scar remains.” ~ Bret Michaels

2. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” ~Herman Hesse

3. “There is no such thing as romantic love. Only agape love. If you don’t know what it is, don’t be surprised.

If you are in a relationship that’s not working right now at work or home, you’re hardly alone. It happens. The question is what are you going to do about it? Some of us get lazy. Rather than roll up our sleeves and get busy, we put on our running shoes instead. We race from one job to another, one relationship to another, only to end up in a similar mess each time. Others of us bury our heads in the sand, in the vain hope that our difficulties will miraculously disappear. Usually, it’s the relationship (and sometimes the job) that disappears instead. In either case, we tend to rationalize our part in it all: Well, what could I do? That’s just the way men/women/bosses/employees/co-workers/jobs-in-general are.

Here’s what you could do: I’m going to give you five tools; five ideas and steps on how to retrieve your ring from the rubble of broken relationships at work and home.

I’ve heard it so many times: “we just don’t have any time for each other,” or “we had so much fun together when we first started dating, and now it’s a big night if we go to bed at the same time.” So many couples get bogged down in daily life, and forget that relationships should be fun! We should enjoy our time with our significant other. There will always be daily hassles to deal with - you can’t avoid it. So it’s important to create that special time for your relationship, where you can re-connect and bring back that lovin’ feeling. And even though your relationship probably won’t include that overall feeling of excitement that it did in the beginning, there are a few things you can do to re-create those feelings from the early days when you couldn’t stop smiling: