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When friendship rituals conflict with shared body goals

My best friend and I are both trying to lose weight and we know alcohol is sabotaging our efforts, but our entire friendship revolves around wine nights and bottomless brunches and neither of us wants to be the one to suggest we change everything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Close friendships can become trapped between conflicting desires for connection and physical well-being when social bonds depend on habits that undermine shared health goals.

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“Where Are You with Alcohol and the body?”

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