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When close friendships lose intellectual honesty

My best friend since college and I used to stay up all night arguing about everything and it felt like love, but somewhere along the way we started changing our opinions to match each other and now I don't know what either of us actually thinks.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two people have unconsciously traded the creative tension that deepened their bond for a false harmony that's making them strangers to themselves and each other.

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