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When couples lose their spontaneity and playfulness

My partner and I used to be spontaneous — weekend road trips, trying weird restaurants, staying up all night talking about ridiculous hypotheticals. Now we plan everything three weeks out and our conversations are about logistics and I don't know when we became this efficient, joyless version of ourselves.

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