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When lifelong friendships start feeling different and no one says anything

My best friend and I have been inseparable for fifteen years but lately I feel like we're growing in different directions and I don't know if that's normal evolution or if one of us needs to say something before we drift apart completely. We both keep acting like everything is the same but it doesn't feel the same.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sometimes the deepest friendships require the courage to name when something is shifting, because the fear of losing what you had can prevent you from discovering what you might become.

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