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When couples can't move past pandemic relationship mistakes

My partner and I keep saying we'll figure out how to deal with what happened during the pandemic—how we treated each other when we were both scared and stuck—but every time we start talking about it one of us gets defensive and we end up in the same fight we were having two years ago.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are trapped in a cycle where their attempts to heal old wounds keep reopening them.

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“Where Are You with Regret and the past?”

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