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3 Vital Skills To Look For in Your Future Life Partner
Topics that might seem uncomfortable, but extremely important to be tackled before making lifelong commitments.
“We are married, but my husband and I have completely separate lives. It feels like we are strangers.”
My friend Radhika and I were exchanging news about recent life events, but the conversation slowly veered towards her marriage and how her husband seemed to have given up on the relationship. The tears she had in her eyes weren’t tears of unhappiness, but tears of frustration.
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Whether it’s yet another video of a police altercation gone wrong or alerts about the latest mass shooting, we face a seemingly unrelenting deluge of disturbing news in our media feeds, timelines, and DMs on a daily basis. And it’s wearing us down.
About two-thirds of Americans say they’re worn out by the amount of news that’s coming at them, according to a Pew Research Center study. The 24-hour news cycle is not just exhausting; it can be traumatic so much so that researchers believe watching violent videos causes symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Even people who view videos of merely confrontational situations suffer, according to the Dr. Margo Jacquot, founder of the Juniper Center, a Chicago-area counseling agency.