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When good intentions create new barriers in relationships

I lost my leg in Afghanistan and my wife keeps moving things to higher shelves without thinking, then gets defensive when I point it out like I am attacking her for trying to help.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between intended care and actual need reveals how love can become another form of erasure when not grounded in true seeing.

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