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When social media expectations create tension in close relationships

My partner gets hurt when I don't immediately like or comment on their posts even though we live together and I tell them I love them every day and I don't understand why digital validation has become more important than our actual relationship.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Public acknowledgment has somehow become the measure of private devotion.

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