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How car rides become pressure cookers for relationship conflict

My wife and I fight in the car more than anywhere else because we are trapped together with our problems and no escape route until we reach our destination. Twenty minutes to the grocery store has become twenty minutes of saying things we cannot take back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Confined spaces can intensify interpersonal tension by removing the option of physical retreat from difficult emotions.

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