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The deeper issue is not that successful women inevitably end up with partners who under-function. It is more uncomfortable than that. Their competence may be propping up a relationship arrangement built for a version of you that no longer exists. Maybe they entered this relationship before the promotion, the business, the children, the financial independence or the confidence to name what you actually need. Their responsibilities, economic power changed and sense of yours

Why High-Functioning Women Are Rethinking Resilience.Research consistently shows that women in leadership experience disproportionately high levels of chronic stress, emotional labour and burnout, yet are far less likely to access psychologically safe support.A 2023 McKinsey study found that women leaders are 1.5 times more likely than men to report burnout symptoms, while neuroscience research from Dr Bruce McEwen’s work on allostatic load demonstrates that prolonged “high-f