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When personal growth strains a long friendship

My best friend and I have been inseparable for fifteen years but lately I've been growing and changing in ways that feel threatening to her, and she keeps trying to pull me back into who I used to be.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The deepest friendships can become the most resistant to the very changes that make us whole.

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