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When couples document vacation moments instead of experiencing them

My partner and I photograph and journal everything on our vacations because we want to be more intentional about appreciating moments but we end up experiencing everything through the lens of how we'll remember it later. We've become tourists in our own relationship, documenting instead of living.

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The desire to preserve joy has replaced the capacity to inhabit it.

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