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When living together creates unhealthy comparison dynamics

My roommate and I both work from home and we started the pandemic thinking we'd be great quarantine partners but we've developed this weird competitive thing around productivity and self-care that's making both of us more neurotic. We can't figure out how to live together without constantly measuring ourselves against each other.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical proximity has turned natural individual rhythms into a source of mutual comparison and escalating self-consciousness.

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