The Friend You Lost Along the Way
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The Friend You Lost Along the Way

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 20262 min
  • Relationships & psychology

They didn't betray you. You didn't fight. Life just moved you in different directions and one day you realized the person who used to know everything about you is basically a stranger now. That kind of loss doesn't get a funeral, but it deserves to be grieved.

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They're the ones that quietly went cold with a slow drift of time.

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The friendships that hurt the most lose aren't the ones that exploded. They're the ones that quietly went cold with a slow drift of time. I've experienced it and you probably have too. I've got a childhood friend who I used to hang out with almost on a daily basis. From the time we were 12, we hung out together,

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got in trouble together, shared both joyful and gut-wrenching moments together. And as so often happens, that friendship changed once we hit the end of high school. life got busy. And in the time in between hangouts, it just slowly grew further and further apart until one day without even realizing it, we hung out for the last time.

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And now there's kind of this quiet sense of grief for the friendship that we once had. And you know the feeling. And so let's ask, why does that happen? Why do these relationships go from being like family to being like strangers? Well, like anything else, I mean, there's probably a lot of variables involved in that,

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