Repairing a Troubled Marriage: Can Conflict Ever Improve?

Question
hey I've been married for almost 5 years now and my wife and i have not always been on the best terms.  We fought before we even dated and then fought all the way up till we got married and have fought ever since.  I was just wondering Does it really ever change?  I have mixed feelings on the issue, and i need some advice.  My marriage depends on it, I've left (for how long i don't know), and need some answers fast before its to late to salvage my marriage. Thanks a lot

Answer
If you have been fighting that long, one would wonder why you even got married. Once this cycle becomes commonplace, it becomes a "routine" that is hard to change, "let's settle everything with a fight? then we can pout off and never address the real issue, perhaps incompatability? I would suggest you both sit down and make a list of problems with the relationship that each would like to see changed, and then address them one at a time and see if there is any consensus amongst you to change them. If you can agree on some, and work on the others, you might have a chance. If not, why not put and end to the suffering?

Bill