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How to support friends through divorce without taking sides

My closest friend has been going through a really hard divorce and I want to support her but she keeps asking me to take sides against her ex who I also consider a friend, and I don't know how to be loyal to her without betraying my own sense of what's fair.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love's endings can demand we choose loyalties that fracture our own integrity.

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“Where Are You with Continuing bonds — ongoing relationship with the deceased?”

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