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How long-term groups maintain connection when members' growth paths diverge

Our book club has been meeting for five years and we've gone through marriages, divorces, job changes, kids, and coming out stories together, but lately when we try to pick books everyone wants to read something that speaks to where they are now and we can't find common ground anymore.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community that bonded through shared exploration is fragmenting as individual evolution creates incompatible needs and interests.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Life transitions as identity events?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.