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How to Ask for Emotional Space Without Damaging Your Relationship

My wife wants to talk about feelings constantly and I feel like I'm suffocating but I don't know how to tell her without hurting her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two different nervous systems collide when one person's need for processing becomes another's experience of overwhelm.

Ideas that help explain it
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