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When friends avoid testing their connection

My best friend and I have been talking about moving to the same city for years but every time it gets close to happening one of us finds a reason it won't work, and I'm starting to think we're both scared of finding out whether our friendship is actually as deep as we think it is.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are unconsciously protecting an idealized version of their relationship by never allowing it to be fully real.

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