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When marriage changes longtime friend group dynamics

My three closest friends and I used to do everything together, but since one of us got married last year, the dynamic has shifted and no one wants to be the first to say it out loud. We're all tiptoeing around the fact that things aren't the same.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The deepest friendships require periodic renegotiation of what closeness means as life reshapes the people within them.

Ideas that help explain it
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