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When friend groups struggle to address one member's destructive behavior

Our friend group has been together for over a decade but one person's drinking has gotten really concerning and the rest of us don't know what to do. We've all talked about it separately but nobody wants to be the one to bring it up directly, and our silence is starting to feel like betrayal.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Their loyalty to their friend is colliding with their responsibility to speak truth, and their collective avoidance is becoming its own form of harm.

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