My partner and I keep having the same fight about different things and we both know we're not actually fighting about the dishes or the schedule but neither of us knows how to name what we're really fighting about. We've gotten good at apologizing and moving on but terrible at actually understanding each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
You've developed a pattern of conflict that skims the surface while the real disagreement remains unspoken and unresolved.
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