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When support groups become complaint sessions instead of genuine inquiry

Three of us have been meeting monthly to talk through career transitions and somewhere along the way it became a place where we just complain about our jobs instead of actually examining what work means to us. I think we're all hungry for the deeper conversation but no one wants to be the one to shift it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The group has settled into a comfortable pattern of venting that prevents the more vulnerable work of actual examination.

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