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When professional skills become barriers to authentic intimacy

My wife and I are both therapists and we thought that would make us great at working through our own relationship issues, but instead we keep analyzing each other and using therapeutic language to avoid actually feeling our feelings together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Expertise meant to facilitate connection is being unconsciously weaponized to maintain emotional distance.

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