When do you quit?

Say you started this new thing all excited thinking this would be it. It is the best relationship ever! It is the mate you dreamed of all your life, you want to bet all you have on it and you are giving it all. You are pouring your heart and soul into it and you are feeling quite confident that it will pay out in a big way. Your excitement is carrying you through some hiccups, and bumps. You are thinking this is the way it has to be, no relationship is perfect and you really have to put a lot of effort in making in happen. Just around the corner is the relationship bliss. Although the return, or rather the love-back is slow to come, you are quite confident it will work out, it has to! You put it all out just for this relationship, for this person.
And so you are really giving it all, no questions asked, but the questions start to pop-up in your head. How much longer do I need to 'work it' before it starts to pay back?
How much more do you need to give before it starts to give back?

Then one morning you wake up and you realize this is not going anywhere.
Do you just quit?

How does it look to your mate if you just quit trying? Does you mate wonder:" what does it mean if your husband don't admire you anymore? "