Periagoge
Scenario

When deep friendships lose their intellectual intimacy

My best friend and I used to stay up until 3am talking about what we really thought about everything and pushing each other's thinking. Now we're both married with kids and when we do talk it feels surface-level and I miss the intellectual intimacy we used to have but I don't know if she does too or if this is just what growing up looks like.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The challenge of maintaining friendships built on shared inquiry when life circumstances pull you toward different kinds of conversations.

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Hypatia
Hypatia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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