Periagoge
Scenario

How to address unspoken tension in friend groups

Our friend group has this unspoken thing where two people in it used to date and broke up badly three years ago and now we all navigate around it at every gathering. It's exhausting and artificial but no one wants to be the person who makes it weird by bringing it up.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community is collectively avoiding a conflict that's shaping every interaction, and the avoidance has become more damaging than the original issue.

Your guide for this
Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Confucian filial piety — examined?”

Peri

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