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When friend groups avoid deeper intimacy through perpetual planning

My three closest friends and I have been talking about taking a big trip together for years but every time we try to plan it someone pulls back or changes the parameters and I'm starting to think we're all afraid of what spending that much concentrated time together might reveal.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The fantasy of closeness has become more comfortable than risking the reality of it.

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