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When couples with perfectionism clash over shared projects

My partner and I are both perfectionists trying to renovate our first house together and every decision becomes this exhausting negotiation where we're both trying to be 'reasonable' but underneath we're each convinced the other person's standards are wrong. We've started avoiding making decisions entirely and the project is stalled.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people discover that their individual coping mechanisms become sources of conflict when they must create something together.

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