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When college friendships struggle to evolve with adult life

My closest friends from college and I used to talk every week but now months go by between conversations and when we do connect it feels surface-level like we're all protecting each other from how much our lives have actually changed. I love them but I don't know if we know how to be friends as the people we've become instead of who we were at twenty-two.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group of friends is clinging to an old version of intimacy while being afraid to discover whether they can create a new one that fits who they are now.

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