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When friendship feels one-sided after years

We've been best friends for fifteen years and I'm realizing I've been the one who always reaches out, always plans things, always asks how they're doing. I'm exhausted but I also don't know who we are if I stop being the one who holds us together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The architecture of a relationship can become so established that changing it feels like losing the relationship itself.

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