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When couples handle aging differently and grow apart

My wife and I are both in our seventies and we've started having completely different reactions to the same aging experiences — she wants to talk through every change in our bodies and minds while I prefer to just adapt quietly, and it's creating this strange distance between us when we need each other most.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are discovering that their coping mechanisms for aging are fundamentally incompatible, creating isolation precisely when intimacy becomes most crucial.

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