My accountability partner and I started our recovery journeys together but I'm progressing faster and it's creating weird dynamics where they seem resentful and I feel guilty about doing well. We both want to maintain the relationship but don't know how to handle the imbalance.
More people experience this than they realize.
A mutual support relationship becomes complicated when equal partnership gives way to asymmetrical growth and unacknowledged competitive dynamics.
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