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When couples' focus on conscious communication crowds out natural intimacy

My partner and I read all these books about conscious relationships and now we check in constantly about our needs and boundaries, but we've lost the ability to just flow together without negotiating every interaction. We're more aware but somehow less intimate.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Relationship tools have become intermediaries that prevent direct emotional contact.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined natural life — Nasreddin's synthesis?”

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