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When long-term friendships change after major life transitions

My best friend and I have been slowly growing apart since she got married three years ago and we both keep pretending nothing has changed but we don't talk the way we used to and I can feel us both being careful around each other. We used to tell each other everything and now it feels like we're protecting something but I don't even know what.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are grieving the loss of intimacy while simultaneously avoiding the vulnerability required to reclaim it.

Ideas that help explain it
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