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When couples therapy feels like performing progress

My wife and I started couples therapy eight months ago and we're both doing the work but somehow we keep having the same fight in new packaging and I'm starting to wonder if we're performing progress instead of actually making it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The forms of therapeutic work can become a substitute for genuine transformation when both people are trying too hard to do it 'right.'

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