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Patient and their spouse have a topic. The topic is not resolved. The topic has been 'for another time' for four months. Both parties know the conversation is waiting. Both parties are waiting for the other to raise it. Neither does. The topic is now, technically, the third member of the marriage — present at every dinner, quiet on every drive, unmentioned during every text. The longer it goes unaddressed, the more formal the eventual raising of it will have to be, which is why it will not, in fact, be raised this weekend either.
Chronic. The unaddressed topic calcifies into the relationship's baseline temperature.
None. 'We'll talk about it later' has been prescribed enough.
Patients with Chronic Deferred-Conversation Marriage Syndrome typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Chronic Deferred-Conversation Marriage Syndrome present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Differentia colloquii conjugalis perpetua, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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