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When couples struggle to support each other's major life commitments

My partner and I both committed to major life changes this year — she's starting her own business and I'm going back to school — but we keep sabotaging each other's progress with our anxiety about money and time, and I think we're both more afraid of succeeding than we want to admit.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people committed to growth are discovering that their individual fears create a shared resistance that undermines the very changes they both claim to want.

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