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How couples enable each other's procrastination habits

My business partner and I both struggle with phone addiction and we keep promising each other we'll put boundaries around our devices during work time but we enable each other's scrolling and then feel guilty about it and the whole cycle is killing our productivity.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are caught in a mutual enabling pattern that reinforces the behavior they both want to change.

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“Where Are You with Procrastination — psychological and philosophical dimensions?”

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