We're sorry to hear that you're having trouble, Anastasia! It sounds like the dough may be over-proofing. Is you're kitchen warmer or are you in a humid climate? If so, this can cause the dough to rise faster than might be expected — we'd recommend checking out our Winter to summer yeast baking blog article for details on how to account for this. Another reason dough might not rise as expected is if too much flour snuck its way into the mixing bowl — we recommend either using a kitchen scale to weigh your ingredients or using the fluff and sprinkle technique for measuring flour in volume. Using a rapid rise instant yeast can also make for results like you've described. In this recipe we call for instant yeast, but there is also a formulation of instant yeast that is rapid rise and this kind of yeast is only good for recipes with one rise time or two very short rises. We hope this can help! 

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