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When community groups face transitions with unspoken conflicts

Six of us formed a neighborhood pod during the pandemic to help with childcare and grocery runs, but now some people want to keep the arrangement and others want to go back to being independent. We're all being polite about it but there are hurt feelings and different comfort levels that we're not talking about directly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group formed by circumstance is discovering that changing conditions reveal different needs and assumptions that require direct negotiation rather than polite avoidance.

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