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When couples therapy becomes performance instead of healing

My wife and I have been in therapy for six months trying to work through our different approaches to parenting and we've made some progress but I notice we both perform for the therapist instead of being completely honest about our resentments. We keep having the same fights at home that we can't seem to have in session.

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