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When longtime friend groups outgrow their shared rituals

Our college friends reunite every year and it used to be this amazing tradition, but now it feels forced because we're all such different people than we were at 22. Some of us have kids, some are single, some are dealing with serious life stuff, but we keep trying to recreate those old dynamics and it just feels hollow.

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A group is discovering that the traditions that once created intimacy can become barriers to intimacy when people change but the format stays the same.

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