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When couples struggle to adapt to Nordic seasonal rhythms together

My partner and I moved to Stockholm two years ago and we're both still fighting the winter schedule - they want to embrace the 4pm darkness and slow down but I'm trying to maintain our old productivity rhythms and we're living in completely different time zones in the same apartment.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are trying to synchronize their internal clocks with a culture that moves differently than they do, but they're each adapting at different speeds.

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“Where Are You with Northern European clock culture?”

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