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Scenario

How to navigate friendship when food restrictions change shared rituals

My best friend and I used to bond over being adventurous eaters and trying new restaurants, but since they developed serious food restrictions we both dance around the topic and end up eating separately more often than together. Neither of us knows how to acknowledge that something fundamental has changed about how we share meals without it feeling like loss or limitation.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A shift in dietary needs has created an unspoken grief about lost intimacy that you're both avoiding instead of reimagining together.

Your guide for this
Hypatia
Hypatia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Food & Cooking?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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