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When perfectionist couples enable each other's paralysis

My spouse and I are both perfectionists and our house projects turn into these intense collaborative disasters where we enable each other's need to research everything to death instead of just starting.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your shared high standards have become a sophisticated form of avoidance that you perform together.

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