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When couples discover fundamental differences while making major life decisions

My wife and I both want to have kids but we're realizing we have completely different relationships to money and planning and risk, and every conversation about starting a family turns into an argument about whether we're 'ready' that feels like it's really about our deepest fears and values.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A shared goal is revealing incompatible worldviews that neither person fully understood about themselves or their partner.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Parts work and Internal Family Systems?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.