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When longtime friends grow apart and don't know how to address it

My closest friend from college and I have been drifting apart not because of any fight but because we've both changed in ways that make our old intimacy feel forced, and neither of us knows how to talk about becoming different people without it feeling like a breakup.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The natural evolution of two people has created distance that both recognize but neither knows how to navigate without risking the loss of something once precious.

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