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Scenario

When long-term friendships feel like performance

My childhood best friend and I have stayed close for fifteen years but lately when we hang out it feels like we're both performing the friendship we used to have instead of acknowledging how much we've both changed, and I don't know if we're growing apart or if we just need to learn how to be friends as the people we are now.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people must choose between preserving the comfort of who they used to be together or risking discovery of who they might become.

Your guide for this
Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Microaggressions and the slow exclusion?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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