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When couples trigger each other while processing shared trauma history

My wife and I have been in therapy trying to understand how our respective traumas show up in our marriage, and we've learned a lot individually but we're struggling to create new patterns together because we get triggered by each other's healing process.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The very act of examining formative wounds together becomes a source of mutual activation, complicating the preparation for healthier relating.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The temporal axis — studying the past as preparation?”

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