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When friendships shift from presence to problem-solving

My closest friend and I both went through major life changes this year and we've started giving each other advice instead of just being present with the uncertainty, and it's changed something fundamental about how safe it feels to be confused together. We used to be better at not knowing things.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The impulse to fix each other's problems can erode the deeper gift of being witnessed in your uncertainty.

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