My closest friend is going through a divorce and I'm falling in love for the first time in years and we both feel like we can't be fully honest with each other about our experiences because they seem so opposite, but the careful way we're talking now feels worse than the potential awkwardness of the truth. We used to be able to hold space for each other's contradictions and now we're both editing ourselves.
More people experience this than they realize.
The desire to protect each other from difficult truths is creating the very distance you're trying to avoid.
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