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When life stage differences strain longtime friendships

My friends from my twenties have all gotten married and had kids and I am still single and our lives feel so different now that we have nothing to talk about.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Different life stages create different languages, and without a common language friendship becomes translation work.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Making friends as an adult — the difficulty?”

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