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When friendship and domestic life create unspoken tensions

My roommates and I moved in together as friends but now that we've been living together for over a year, we've never figured out how to talk about the small resentments and different standards, so there's this constant low-level tension that we all pretend isn't there.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The intimacy of shared space has revealed incompatibilities that friendship alone couldn't predict.

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