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When LGBTQ+ friend groups navigate changing relationship dynamics

Our friend group has always been our chosen family but now that some of us are coupling up and others are exploring different relationship styles, we're all feeling the growing pains of how to stay close when our needs for intimacy and community are shifting in different directions.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A chosen family is reckoning with how individual romantic growth can threaten collective belonging, even when everyone wants both.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with LGBTQ+ Love, Partnership, and Its Varieties?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.