My best friend transitioned two years ago and I've been trying to be supportive but I keep making mistakes with her name and pronouns and now there's this weird tension where she's hurt and I'm walking on eggshells. We used to talk about everything and now we can't even talk about this thing that's affecting our friendship.
More people experience this than they realize.
A friendship is being strained by the gap between good intentions and imperfect execution, creating a cycle where hurt feelings make honest conversation harder to achieve.
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