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When running partnerships become emotional dumping grounds

My running partner and I have been meeting at dawn for two years and she's going through a divorce and keeps using our runs to vent about her ex, and I want to be supportive but our peaceful morning ritual has become this heavy emotional dumping ground and I don't know how to get our lightness back.

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A supportive friendship has tilted into something that drains the very activity that once nourished you both.

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