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When couples schedule connection but lose spontaneous intimacy

My husband and I both work demanding jobs and we keep scheduling 'date nights' but then we're too tired to really connect, just going through the motions, and I wonder if we're optimizing for the wrong thing when what we really need is just five unguarded minutes in the kitchen.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The effort to create meaningful time together has become a barrier to actually experiencing it.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Quality time vs. quantity of time?”

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