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When community spaces become performative instead of authentic

Our neighborhood book club has become the place where we process everything hard that's happening in our lives and I love that closeness but lately it feels like we're all performing our problems for each other instead of actually supporting each other. The vulnerability has become performative somehow.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intimacy can calcify into patterns that look like connection but feel hollow, requiring the courage to name what's been lost.

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