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When couples struggling with mental health can't sustain exercise routines

My partner and I both have depression and we keep making exercise plans together that we both abandon, then feel guilty about, then make new plans — we're stuck in this cycle of mutual accountability that's become mutual shame.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people are discovering that shared good intentions can become shared sources of failure and judgment.

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