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How perfectionism kills intimacy

I corrected my partner's grammar in the middle of them telling me about their bad day and we both just sat there in awkward silence.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The compulsion to fix and improve can destroy the sacred space where vulnerability seeks only to be witnessed.

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