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When friends with different coping styles can't support each other

My best friend and I have completely different ways of handling uncertainty — she needs to plan and control everything, I tend to just trust things will work out — and lately when either of us is going through something difficult, we end up making each other feel worse instead of better.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Your fundamental differences in how you approach life's difficulties have become a barrier to connection rather than a source of richness.

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