My husband and I are both workaholics and we've built a life where we're successful but rarely present with each other. We keep saying we'll slow down after the next project but we never do, and I'm starting to wonder if we even know how to be together without being busy.
More people experience this than they realize.
Shared ambition has become a refuge from intimacy, and both people fear that slowing down might reveal there's nothing underneath the doing.
“Where Are You with Emotional Availability?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.