Matters came to a head for Zara, an operations executive in an IT company, when her husband Bruce found her hyperventilating on their kitchen floor at 6 a.m. on Christmas morning. “She was close to total collapse. After work the night before, she had gotten everything ready for Christmas. Our deal is that I take over on Christmas day, so that morning, she should have stayed in bed with a coffee while I did the work. And yet, she got up early, and when I went to look for her, I found her collapsed on the floor.”
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