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When couples remember the same conversations differently

My wife and I have completely different memories of major conversations we've had - especially the hard ones about our future - and we're starting to question whether we're living in the same relationship. Last night we realized we remembered our anniversary dinner conversation about having kids in completely opposite ways.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are discovering that their memories of shared experiences diverge so fundamentally that it threatens their sense of shared reality.

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