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When long friendships avoid the deeper questions that matter most

The four of us have been friends since college and we used to talk about everything but now that we're dealing with real adult struggles like illness and job loss and relationship problems there's this weird silence around anything that touches on meaning or purpose.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intimacy fails precisely where it's most needed when friends cannot bear witness to each other's search for meaning.

Ideas that help explain it
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