How to handle failing friendships Dr. Laurel Williams shares some tips on how to see the signs and then navigate through a friendship breakup.

Dr. Laurel Williams shares some tips on how to see the signs and then navigate through a friendship breakup. #FriendshipBreakups

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What About Your Friends? Bar Fights, Blocked Numbers, and the Friends Who Carried Me Through Every Kind of Race

Blueberry pancakes, bar fights, low blows. Some friends disappear. Others stay. And sometimes, you’re the one who finally walks away.

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People say they’ve “outgrown” others but it’s often success, branding & ego talking. The real markers? Emotional maturity, conflict repair, reciprocity. I don’t outgrow. Our paths just diverged. Vegas or Timbuktu. Maybe we meet again. Maybe not. #FriendshipBreakups

This language of “outgrowing” friends? It’s often ego dressed up as growth. What are you measuring & by whose standards? I find most who say it unbearable.

They’re usually measuring through a hyperindividualistic, Western lens stunted themselves. #friendshipbreakups