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When you can't stand your best friend's romantic partner

My best friend and I have been inseparable for fifteen years but she's been dating someone for the past year who I genuinely cannot stand, and I can feel myself pulling away from her because I can't figure out how to be authentic about my feelings without potentially damaging our friendship.

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Love for a friend and inability to accept their choice in love have created an impossible tension between honesty and loyalty.

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