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When a close friend's relationship changes your friendship

My college roommate and I planned to travel Europe together next summer but she just got engaged and now her priorities are completely different — she wants to save money and stay close to her fiancé — and I feel like I'm losing my closest friend to this relationship.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

One person is grieving the loss of a friendship dynamic while the other is growing into new commitments, and neither knows how to honor both realities.

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