Our book club has been meeting for five years and we've become real friends but lately the discussions have gotten really intense about social issues and a couple people have stopped coming. The rest of us keep acting like everything is fine but I can feel the group fracturing and I don't know if we should address it directly or just let it evolve naturally.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group formed around shared interest is discovering that intellectual intimacy can create emotional risks they weren't prepared to navigate.
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