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When close friends realize they have different expectations about living together

My best friend and I have been planning to move in together for months but now that it's actually happening I'm realizing we have completely different ideas about money, cleanliness, and having people over. We keep avoiding the hard conversations because we don't want to hurt each other's feelings but I can feel resentment building already.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who love each other are discovering that proximity reveals incompatibilities they never had to face before.

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