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When long-term friendships face the tension between growth and preservation

My best friend and I have been inseparable for fifteen years, but lately I've been growing in ways that feel threatening to our dynamic, and they've been pulling back in response. We're both scared of losing each other but also scared of staying exactly the same.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sometimes the deepest love must choose between preserving what was beautiful and allowing what might become beautiful.

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