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When friendship changes after major life transitions

My best friend and I used to have these intense late-night conversations about what we actually believed about everything, but since she got married and I didn't, there's this unspoken thing where we both pretend our life choices don't reflect different values.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two friends are protecting their connection by avoiding the examination of how their different paths might reflect different beliefs about what makes life meaningful.

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