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When friend groups avoid addressing someone's destructive behavior

Our friend group from college still gets together twice a year but there's this unspoken thing where we all pretend Sarah's drinking isn't a problem and the gatherings have become these careful performances where we're all walking on eggshells.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A community is slowly dissolving because everyone cares too much to risk the confrontation that might actually save the relationships.

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