The thing is, females will try before even "checking out." But dudes consider it nagging or her just overreacting or they just don't take it as seriously as it should be.
This happened with my husband and I. For the first 2 years of our marriage, I kept addressing the problems when it was just small. He thought I was over exaggerating our problems and didn't take it as serious. I still kept trying to fix up until a little over a year ago, he did some fukked up thing and I officially washed my hands with us. I still stayed, hoping there will be a change around but in my mind, we were over. We been done for over a year and it's now he sees that and trying to fix.