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How friends navigate different healing timelines after trauma

My best friend and I both got divorced around the same time and we've been each other's primary support but now she's dating again and I'm not ready and I feel like I'm being left behind in our shared healing process. We don't know how to talk about growing at different paces.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Synchronized suffering does not guarantee synchronized healing, creating unexpected distance in previously aligned relationships.

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