My college roommates and I planned to live together after graduation but now that we're all in different life stages - one's engaged, one's struggling financially, one's dealing with mental health stuff - the group chat feels forced and I'm not sure how to acknowledge that we're growing apart without making it feel like a breakup.
More people experience this than they realize.
You are witnessing the tender dissolution of a chosen family as everyone becomes who they're meant to be, and there's no script for grieving what was while celebrating what's becoming.
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