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How to break out of limiting roles in long-term friendships

My friend always needs me to be the strong one who has it together and I'm falling apart inside but don't know how to change the dynamic after ten years.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Friendships can calcify around early patterns that no longer serve either person's full humanity.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Deep friendship — what it takes?”

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