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When longtime friend groups avoid confronting toxic dynamics

Our friend group has been together since college and one person has become increasingly difficult — always the victim, never accountable, sucking up all the emotional energy — but we're all too scared to address it because it might mean the end of something that's been central to all our lives for fifteen years.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community must choose between comfort and honesty when one member threatens the whole.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Maintaining friendships across distance and time?”

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