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When close friendships become overly polite and distant

My best friend and I used to text each other the most random, stupid stuff throughout the day and now our messages are like 'hope you're well' and scheduling coffee dates two weeks out. We both feel it but neither of us wants to be the one to say 'remember when we used to send each other memes at 2am about our existential crises?'

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You've both agreed to pretend that growing up means growing apart.

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