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Scenario

When job loss turns close friends into reluctant competitors

My three closest friends from work and I all got laid off in the same round of cuts six months ago and we keep meeting for coffee to 'support each other' but it's become this competitive thing where we compare job search progress and I can feel us starting to see each other as competition instead of support. None of us knows how to talk about it.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Shared crisis is revealing how scarcity can poison the very relationships meant to provide comfort through difficulty.

Your guide for this
Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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