My partner and I are both freelancers and we've never actually talked about what success means to either of us — I think they want stability and I want creative freedom but we keep making career decisions based on assumptions about what the other person needs. We're starting to resent each other for things we've never said out loud.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are making major life decisions based on unexamined assumptions about each other's values and desires.
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