ocr: PAGE 2 COUPLES ANALYSIS ofsurroundings and by the ability of1 those involved tob be open and self-disclosing. Because Maria and Jack were busy, capable individuals, they had learned to compartmentalize their lives. This worked extremely well as a means of getting efticiently through their workloads, but it also meant that they weren't successful at sharing their feelings and their experiences with one another. Since Maria and Jack were both also highly competitive, they had learned, early on, not to reveal anything that might make them vulnerable, out of fear that it would be used against them ...
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