My best friend and I used to tell each other everything, but since her divorce and my promotion we've started performing happiness for each other instead of being real. We both know we're doing it and we both miss what we had but neither of us knows how to get back there without admitting we've been fake.
More people experience this than they realize.
Intimacy has been replaced by performance and both people can feel the absence.
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