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When marriage changes a close friendship and nobody talks about it

My best friend and I used to tell each other everything, but since she got married two years ago we've both been pretending nothing has changed when obviously everything has changed, and now we're having these weird surface-level conversations that leave us both feeling lonely.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A life transition has shifted the intimacy between you, but you're both protecting something that no longer exists instead of discovering what could.

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