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Scenario

How to rediscover friendship within long-term romantic partnership

My partner and I started as best friends in college and we've been together romantically for six years now, but lately we've been feeling more like roommates who have sex occasionally. We miss the friendship that was the foundation of everything, but we don't know how to get back to that easy intimacy without feeling like we're going backwards.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When romantic partnership overshadows the foundational friendship, couples must learn to inhabit both forms of love simultaneously rather than sequentially.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Philia — deep friendship as love?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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