My wife and I moved in with her elderly mother during the pandemic to help her out and we never moved back out, and now our marriage feels like it's happening in front of an audience all the time. We can't figure out how to have privacy or conflict or intimacy when someone who raised one of us is always there, and we're all getting on each other's nerves in ways that feel unfixable.
More people experience this than they realize.
Living arrangements that make practical sense can create emotional dynamics that nobody anticipated or knows how to navigate.
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