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Scenario

When friendship is complicated by one person's success and another's closed doors

My best friend and I have been avoiding each other ever since she got into the graduate program that rejected me, not because we're angry but because we don't know how to be around the path I wanted so badly and can't have.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The presence of one person's achieved dream makes another's impossible dream feel more real and more lost.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief for lost possibility — paths not taken?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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