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When couples' professional identities diverge after trauma

My spouse and I both work in healthcare and COVID broke something in both of us but differently - they've become more committed to the system and I've lost all faith in it. We used to share this professional identity and now when we talk about work it feels like we're living in different realities.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared crisis has led two people to fundamentally different conclusions about their life's work.

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