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When friendship boundaries get complicated by dating history

My best friend started dating someone I dated briefly two years ago and she asked permission first and I said yes but now I'm realizing I'm not okay with it. I don't know if I'm being possessive or if my feelings are valid and either way our friendship feels fragile.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The unspoken complexities of loyalty and ownership are testing whether intimacy can survive competing claims on the same heart.

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