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A listener has built her whole identity around being easygoing -- any restaurant, any movie, always flexible -- and is starting to feel like she built a box she can no longer open. What does 'low-maintenance' cost the person performing it?

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The baby cries, he sleeps, and by morning both of them call it nature.

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A listener can lose an entire day spiraling over a single lowercase 'sure' from an otherwise steady, responsive boyfriend. What's actually being read into the silence between texts?

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Every month she becomes the person who says no, while he gets to be surprised by math.

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A listener told her husband not to make a big deal of their anniversary, then felt ruined when he didn't. She wanted him to want to mark it without being asked -- and never said so. Does needing to ask for romance really disqualify it?

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The half-painted hallway has become the most honest room in the house.

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A listener has become the person who keeps a running mental tally of who did what -- dishes, gifts, apologies, sex -- and hates who it's turning her into. Is keeping score a betrayal of the marriage, or a symptom of one?

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She had the flu for four days, and the laundry treated her illness like a short delay in management.

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A listener's boyfriend never yells, but when they fight he goes silent for hours or days, answering only practical questions in a flat voice. Where's the line between someone needing space and someone punishing you with it?

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A listener's husband is the funniest man at any table -- and lately she's the easiest laugh in the room, in small, plausibly-deniable jokes everyone else finds hilarious. Can you be the punchline in your own marriage and still call it love?