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Scenario

When couples compete for emotional resources during transitions

My wife and I are both going through career transitions at the same time and instead of supporting each other we've become competitive about who's struggling more and who deserves more emotional bandwidth. We're keeping score of suffering and it's poisoning everything.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Scarcity thinking can turn mutual support into a zero-sum game where both people lose.

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Patan
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Peri

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