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When friend groups get stuck in unhealthy giving patterns

Our friend group has this unspoken thing where Sarah always hosts everything and never lets anyone else contribute and we all just go along with it but I can see she's getting burned out and resentful — and honestly some of us are too — but no one knows how to change the dynamic without hurting her feelings.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group has organized itself around one person's need to give and everyone else's willingness to receive, and now the imbalance is suffocating all of them.

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