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When couples have conflicting anxiety management styles

My partner and I both struggle with anxiety but we've developed completely different coping strategies — they need to talk through everything immediately and I need space to process first — and lately our ways of handling stress are making each other worse instead of better.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who love each other are discovering that their individual mental health needs are creating a system that undermines both of their wellbeing.

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