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When Busyness Becomes a Shield Against Intimacy

I work sixty hours a week and I tell myself I am too busy for relationships but I think I am actually afraid of being vulnerable with someone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Productivity can become armor against the risk of rejection while creating the very emptiness it seeks to avoid.

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