We’ve all encountered the Abilene Paradox at some point, but maybe we didn’t know the scholarly phrase for it. In short, most summarize it as management by agreement, whether for the best or worst.

Conflict is often viewed as a threat to intimacy—an indicator that something is fundamentally wrong. However, conflict has a more nuanced reality: For some couples that have put in the work to make ...

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