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How support groups can become echo chambers

Three of us in our friend group went through divorces within the same year and we've been meeting weekly to support each other, but I'm starting to realize we might just be reinforcing each other's bitterness about our exes. We've created this echo chamber where anger feels more comfortable than actually processing the grief.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group seeking healing is unconsciously choosing the familiarity of shared resentment over the discomfort of individual emotional work.

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