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How to cope when your best friend is moving far away

My closest friend told me she is moving across the country in two months and I feel like I am losing the one person who really understands me, but I do not want to make her departure about my sadness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love requires both holding on and letting go, and the anticipatory grief of separation tests whether you can do both at once.

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“Where Are You with Friendship & Platonic Love?”

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