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When couples experience the same profound moment differently

My partner and I planned our whole sabbatical around witnessing the total solar eclipse together, but when the moment came we experienced it completely differently — they were transcendent and I felt nothing — and now we can't talk about it without this weird tension.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Shared anticipation of transcendence can create unexpected distance when the experience doesn't align.

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