My college roommate and I have stayed close for fifteen years but she's been going through a really hard time with her divorce and depression, and I want to support her but it's starting to affect my own mental health. I feel guilty about needing space and I don't know how to love her well without losing myself.
More people experience this than they realize.
Deep friendship is being tested by the reality that one person's capacity to give and another's need to receive are temporarily mismatched.
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