Our friend group has slowly become centered around drinking and some of us are getting uncomfortable with it but we don't know how to bring it up without seeming judgmental. Every hangout is at a bar or involves wine and I'm worried about one friend in particular but we all just keep pretending it's normal.
More people experience this than they realize.
Friends are caught between loyalty and enabling, afraid to name a growing problem because it might force uncomfortable truths about the group dynamic.
“Where Are You with Middle childhood 7-12 — school peers identity?”
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