My wife and I have been married for twelve years and we've gotten really good at avoiding fights but I'm starting to realize we might have also gotten good at avoiding everything else that matters and neither of us knows how to start talking about real things again.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people have created such effective conflict avoidance that they've inadvertently shut down meaningful connection.
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