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How long-term friend groups navigate internal breakups and shifting loyalties

Our friend group has been together for fifteen years and two people in it went through a really messy breakup last year and now every gathering feels tense because we're all trying to navigate loyalties and nobody wants to be the one to address it directly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When the personal becomes political within a chosen family, silence often preserves the structure while eroding the substance.

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