"It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication"
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The key phrase is “gone deeply out of communication.” “Deeply” implies this isn’t about forgetting to text back or arguing over chores; it’s about a slow, structural drift where two people keep living side by side while their shared language erodes. It also lets him avoid tabloid-ready specifics. He doesn’t say betrayal, sex, or divorce. He says communication, a safer, more universal framing that still carries real stakes: emotional abandonment can happen inside a technically intact relationship.
Contextually, this is an actor doing image-management in the best way: translating a film’s drama into a relatable marital anxiety, inviting viewers to watch not for spectacle but for recognition. Subtext: the scariest relationship endings aren’t explosions; they’re prolonged silences that feel normal until they don’t.
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| Topic | Marriage |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Ruffalo, Mark. (2026, January 16). It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-a-difficult-undertaking-ive-been-married-for-97122/
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Ruffalo, Mark. "It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-a-difficult-undertaking-ive-been-married-for-97122/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-a-difficult-undertaking-ive-been-married-for-97122/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.








