My closest friend and I used to challenge each other's thinking about everything and it made both of us sharper, but somewhere in the last few years we've started protecting each other's feelings instead of telling each other the truth, and I miss who we used to be together.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people have traded the gift of mutual challenge for the comfort of mutual validation, and both sense something essential has been lost.
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