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When children's conflicts complicate parent friendships

I made a friend through my kid's school but then our children had a falling out and now everything feels awkward and I do not know how to separate the adult friendship from the kid drama.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Friendships built on shared circumstance become vulnerable when those circumstances shift or sour.

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