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When you're caught in the middle of your friends' ongoing conflict

My two best friends have been in an increasingly bitter feud for six months over something that started small, and they both keep venting to me about each other, and I'm starting to feel like I'm being forced to choose sides when I just want them to work it out.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Someone is being turned into an unwilling repository for pain that belongs between two other people, and the friendship triangle is becoming toxic.

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