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When couples turn rest into a productivity system

My spouse and I both work demanding jobs and we've started treating our weekend rest time like an efficiency project with meditation apps and sleep tracking and optimization schedules. We're trying so hard to rest perfectly that our downtime feels like another job.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The attempt to master rest destroys the very surrender that makes restoration possible.

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“Where Are You with Rest as productive time?”

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