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When you compartmentalize friendships and avoid full vulnerability

I have different friends for different parts of my life and none of them know the real complete me and I wonder if that's normal or if I'm hiding from true intimacy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The division of self across multiple relationships can protect us from rejection while preventing us from being fully known.

Ideas that help explain it
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