My partner and I both work in corrections and we've been carrying home different pieces of the same broken system for eight years and we've stopped talking about the worst parts because we're afraid of making it harder for each other. We used to process things together but now we just sit with our own version of exhaustion and I don't know how to bridge back to honest conversation about what this work is doing to us.
More people experience this than they realize.
You and your partner have gone quiet about the hardest parts of the job, and now you feel alone in it together.
“Where Are You with Public Safety — Corrections & Rehabilitation?”
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