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How to handle a friend who dominates group dynamics

Our friend group has one person who dominates every conversation and makes everything about them, and the rest of us have started making plans without including them, but nobody wants to address it directly. We all care about this person but we're exhausted and now there's this weird secret dynamic where we're all complicit in excluding someone we supposedly love.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community is fracturing under the weight of unaddressed relational patterns and collective avoidance.

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