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How economic differences change longtime friend groups

Our friend group has been tight for over a decade but lately when we all get together there's this weird tension because some of us are doing really well financially and others are struggling, and nobody wants to be the one to acknowledge that the gap is changing how we relate to each other.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unspoken class divides are quietly reshaping the emotional geography of a friendship that was built on assumed equality.

Ideas that help explain it
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