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When couples struggle to find shared meaning in suffering together

My partner and I both went through major career failures this year and we're trying to find meaning in what happened, but we keep getting stuck in different frameworks - she wants to focus on what we learned, I keep looking for how this serves some bigger purpose, and we end up talking past each other instead of helping each other make sense of it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people experiencing parallel suffering cannot align their meaning-making processes, creating isolation within the relationship itself.

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