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we've been together about a year now and honestly most of it is great but the way we each deal with problems is just... not the same language at all
i want to talk through my feelings out loud, like immediately, and they want to go quiet and think it through alone first and come back to it later. used to really freak me out ngl, i thought they were shutting me out
anyone else navigate this cancer/capricorn thing? does it get easier or is this just always gonna be something we work around
This is a really common friction point for this pairing. Looking at the elements - Cancer is water, you process emotionally and in real time. Capricorn is earth, they process by retreating and working through things methodically before speaking.
Neither approach is wrong, they're just on different timelines. The key is agreeing on a signal - something like 'I need some time but I'm coming back to this' - so the silence doesn't read as withdrawal to you, and the immediate processing doesn't read as pressure to them.
omg this is so my parents. my mom's a cancer my dad's a capricorn and she used to think he didn't care because he'd go quiet, but he was just... thinking. 30 years later they've got it figured out
following this, dating a capricorn as a cancer rn and the quiet processing thing throws me off every time even when i logically know it's coming
the signal idea from MarcusAstro is actually really helpful, we just kind of assumed the other person would 'get it' without ever saying it out loud. gonna bring this up with them tonight
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