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When couples fight during shared death contemplation practices

My spouse and I both believe in using death awareness to prioritize our time better, but when we actually try to do the exercises together, we end up in fights about whose fears are more valid or whose life changes are more necessary, and I don't think this is how it's supposed to work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Joint mortality meditation is triggering conflicts over whose existential concerns deserve more attention and response.

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