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When friendships lose their intellectual honesty

My best friend and I used to argue about everything with such joy and curiosity, and lately I notice we both edit ourselves, avoiding the topics where we might really disagree, and I miss who we were together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The safety to think aloud together has been quietly replaced by the safety of not disturbing each other, and you're losing something essential about how you know each other.

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