My wife and I started going to therapy and now we communicate so properly and use all the right language but something feels mechanical about it and we both miss when we could just be weird and wrong together. We're better at conflict but worse at joy and I don't know how to tell the therapist that.
More people experience this than they realize.
The tools meant to improve the relationship have inadvertently created a new kind of distance through excessive self-consciousness.
“Where Are You with Breathing and nature?”
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