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When play therapy feels performative between friends

My best friend and I have been doing play therapy together to work through some tension in our friendship, but I'm worried we're just performing being playful rather than actually feeling it. We go through the motions of the exercises but something still feels forced and I don't know if we're healing or just pretending everything is fine.

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Two friends are using play as a healing tool but struggling to distinguish between genuine reconnection and going through the motions of repair.

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