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How to rebuild lightness in friendships that have been through trauma

My best friend and I went through some hard times together and got really good at supporting each other through crisis but now when things are actually okay we don't know how to just be light and it feels like we only know how to connect when something's wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You've become so skilled at shared seriousness that joy feels foreign.

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