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When couples get stuck in stress-reactive patterns together

My partner and I are both dealing with chronic stress from work and we've turned into these reactive versions of ourselves who snap at each other over nothing, but we can't seem to break the cycle even though we both know what's happening.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two nervous systems in chronic activation are triggering each other in an escalating loop that both people can see but feel powerless to interrupt.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Stress and the nervous system?”

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