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When couples clash over scheduling and spontaneity

My partner and I are driving each other crazy because I need to plan our evenings and weekends in advance and they prefer to see how things unfold, and we can't figure out how to make plans together without one of us feeling controlled or abandoned.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two different relationships to time are creating a fundamental incompatibility in how you structure shared life.

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