My partner and I are both high achievers who've built our relationship around supporting each other's goals, but lately we're realizing that our individual strengths seem to cancel each other out - I'm naturally optimistic and future-focused while she's detail-oriented and realistic, and instead of complementing each other we're just exhausting ourselves trying to prove our approaches work. We used to celebrate each other's wins but now it feels like we're competing over whose way of thriving is 'right'.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people discover that their individual pathways to flourishing create tension rather than synergy in their shared life.
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