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When close friendships lose their humor and become all business

My best friend and I used to text each other stupid memes and inside jokes constantly but now our conversations are all logistics about when we can hang out and updates about our problems and I feel like we're becoming boring grown-ups.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You've let efficiency kill intimacy, turning your friendship into a series of status updates rather than shared delight.

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