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When couples lose their playfulness after surviving trauma together

My wife and I survived the wildfire that took our house two years ago and we've rebuilt everything except our ability to be spontaneous or silly together - we plan every detail of everything now and I miss when we could just be ridiculous together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The hypervigilance that kept you safe has calcified into a joyless precision that's suffocating the lightness you once shared.

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