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When freelancing couples struggle to create boundaries between work and life in a shared space

My partner and I both freelance and we've turned our home into this always-on workspace where we're constantly switching between personal time and client work and neither of us can ever fully relax or fully focus. We're living in this perpetual state of partial attention and we don't know how to create real boundaries anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people trying to carve out sanctuary in a world that rewards constant availability.

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