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When couples mistake not-working for actual Sabbath rest

My partner and I both work remotely and every day bleeds into the next and we keep saying we need better boundaries but when Sunday comes we just do laundry and errands and call it rest because we're not technically working.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The absence of labor is not the presence of restoration.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sabbath — the weekly practice of stopping?”

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