My partner and I both have chronic sinusitis and we've become these people who are constantly sniffling, mouth breathing, and managing symptoms together but we're starting to resent each other's sounds and habits. We're both miserable but somehow making each other's experience worse and I don't know how to break this cycle of mutual irritation while we're both suffering.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared physical suffering can create unexpected friction between partners who want to support each other but are triggered by the very symptoms they both experience.
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