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When professional helpers can't turn off their expertise at home

My wife and I are both therapists and we're great at helping other people with their relationships but somehow can't stop analyzing and pathologizing our own fights instead of just feeling our way through them. We know too much about what we're supposed to do and it's killing our spontaneity.

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