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When couples can't stop working long enough to rest together

My partner and I keep saying we need to start doing Sabbath together but every weekend one of us finds a reason to work or catch up and we've never actually done it once despite buying books about it six months ago.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The very busyness that makes Sabbath necessary also makes it impossible to begin.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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