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When peer support groups become performance spaces instead of honest forums

Our startup cohort has been meeting monthly for eighteen months and somewhere along the way it became a place where we just update each other on our wins rather than actually helping each other through the hard stuff. Everyone seems fine with this but I joined because I needed people who understood the real struggles and now I feel more isolated than before.

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Your support group turned into a highlight reel, and you feel more alone than before.

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