My best friend and I have been through everything together for fifteen years but lately when one of us is going through something hard, we both just send supportive texts instead of really talking, and I can feel us becoming the kind of friends who care about each other but don't actually know each other anymore. We used to be the people each other called first and now we're both calling other people first and I don't know how to say that without sounding needy.
More people experience this than they realize.
The very safety of an old friendship can become its limitation when both people stop risking real intimacy.
“Where Are You with Vulnerability and connection?”
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