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When You Protect Your Partner in Couples Therapy

I'm in couples therapy but I spend the whole session protecting my partner from the therapist instead of talking about our actual problems.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The loyalty that once served love now prevents its healing, as the instinct to shield each other from truth becomes the very barrier to growth.

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