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When couples lose their shared sense of future planning

My partner and I used to plan five years ahead together but now we can't even talk about next month without one of us shutting down. Every conversation about the future feels like we're speaking different languages about time itself - I'm trying to rebuild hope and they seem to have given up on planning altogether.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who once moved through time together now inhabit fundamentally different temporal worlds, making shared hope nearly impossible.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Hope as temporal orientation?”

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