My roommate and I both work from home and we started this routine of checking in with each other about our days and goals but it's morphed into this weird accountability partnership where we judge each other's productivity and I don't know how to get back to just being supportive.
More people experience this than they realize.
The desire to grow alongside someone can calcify into a system of mutual surveillance that replaces genuine encouragement with performance anxiety.
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