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When couples postpone relationship investment for career demands

My spouse and I both work demanding jobs and we keep saying we'll prioritize our relationship once things calm down, but things never calm down and I'm starting to worry we're building a life that has no room for us in it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The perpetual promise of 'later' becomes a way of avoiding the difficult truth that later may never come without deliberate choice.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Long-term thinking vs. short-term thinking?”

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