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When couples struggle with too much togetherness

My wife and I both work from home now and we love spending more time together but we've also lost all our individual rhythms and space, and neither of us knows how to ask for alone time without hurting the other's feelings.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intimacy requires both connection and separateness, but asking for space can feel like rejection when love is confused with constant presence.

Worth thinking about

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