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How to navigate friendship when life stages pull you in different directions

Three of us have been best friends since college and we used to talk about everything, but ever since one of us got married and another had kids, we've all been pretending that nothing fundamental has changed. We're still trying to be the same people to each other but we're not the same people anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're clinging to old patterns of connection that no longer fit who you've each become, afraid that acknowledging change means losing each other.

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