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When couples get trapped in work complaint cycles

My spouse and I both work from home now and we've fallen into this pattern where we complain to each other about our jobs every day but never actually talk about whether we're living the kind of working life we want or what we'd change if we could.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are using shared venting as a way to avoid examining what they actually want from their working lives.

Ideas that help explain it
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