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When couples experience uneven recovery from shared struggles

My husband and I both lost our jobs within six months of each other and we've been supporting each other through it, but now that he found something and I'm still looking, there's this weird tension between us that we're both pretending isn't there.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success can create as much relational complexity as failure when it arrives unevenly for people who have been suffering together.

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