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When couples become too sleep-entangled and lose individual rest capacity

My partner and I both work from home and our sleep has become this weird mirror where if one of us is restless the other can't settle either. We're too entangled and neither of us knows how to sleep independently anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Interdependence has crossed into codependence, making rest require the other's participation.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sleep as time relationship?”

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