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When close friendships drift into polite distance

My best friend and I used to text each other ridiculous memes all day but now our conversations are just coordinating schedules and asking how work is going and I don't know when we became so polite with each other.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intimacy withers when care becomes careful.

Ideas that help explain it
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