My partner and I have been trying to have difficult conversations about money and parenting but we keep falling into the same pattern where I get analytical and she gets emotional and then we both shut down. We've read all the communication books but something about actually doing it together just breaks down.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are caught in a recurring dynamic where their different processing styles create mutual triggering rather than understanding.
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