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When couples are both in therapy but keep repeating the same patterns

My partner and I are both in therapy working on our attachment stuff but we keep having the same fight about space and closeness — I'm trying to be less anxious and they're trying to be less avoidant but somehow we just end up acting out the exact patterns we're supposed to be healing.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people's healing journeys are colliding rather than supporting each other, creating the very dynamics they're individually trying to resolve.

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“Where Are You with Parts work and Internal Family Systems?”

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