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When friends are in different places with healing and moving on

My closest friend and I both went through devastating breakups this year and we've been each other's primary support, but now she's dating someone new and I'm still completely alone, and I can feel myself becoming bitter and withdrawn from her happiness. We're both walking on eggshells because we know this is fragile territory but we don't know how to navigate it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who bonded through shared pain are discovering that healing happens at different paces, and one person's progress threatens to destabilize the very connection that sustained them both.

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