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When couples keep failing at difficult conversations despite trying

My wife and I have been trying to have difficult conversations about money and parenting decisions but we keep falling into the same pattern where she shuts down and I get more aggressive and then we both retreat for days. We know we need to communicate better but every attempt just proves we can't.

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Two people are trapped in a reactive cycle that their conscious efforts to break only seem to reinforce.

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