How do I fix my relationship when work is taking too much of me?

Your most important relationship is suffering because of how much of you the work takes, and the quietest, most telling sign is this: your partner has stopped even mentioning it. That silence is not the problem solving itself. It usually means they have given up expecting it to change, and that is worth taking seriously right now. Work will always ask for more, and it will never be the thing that tells you to stop; it has no reason to. The relationship, meanwhile, has been giving way a little at a time, so slowly that no single day felt like a crisis. But drift is still movement, and the distance you feel is real. The good news is that the same slow accumulation works in reverse; small, consistent turning-toward rebuilds what small, steady absence wore down. So make one visible move this week, and make it soon, before the silence hardens further. Protect a real, unhurried stretch of time with your partner, phone away, work truly set down, and tell them plainly that you see it and you want to change it. Do not promise a transformation. Just show up, once, fully, and then again. Presence, repeated, is what says what apologies cannot.