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When you try to recreate family with friends

I keep trying to create the family I never had with my friends but they have their own families and I am starting to feel pathetic about how much I need them to fill that void.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The hunger for familial love can drive attempts to transform friendships into family that ultimately burden those relationships.

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