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When friend groups avoid confronting problematic dynamics

Our friend group has this one person who's become increasingly difficult - monopolizing conversations, creating drama - but we're all conflict-avoidant and just complaining to each other behind their back instead of addressing it. We're slowly poisoning something we all care about.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community is choosing the slow death of resentment over the risk of difficult honesty.

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