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When long-term friend groups grow apart and can't find their way back

Our book club has been meeting for eight years but ever since the pandemic we can't seem to have a conversation about anything meaningful without someone getting defensive or shutting down. We're all different people now and none of us knows how to acknowledge that without admitting our friendship might be over.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A circle of friends discovers they have outgrown their old ways of being together but lack the courage to create something new.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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