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328 I’m 44 and I recently ended a friendship that had been slowly making me smaller for years — not through cruelty, she was never cruel, but through the accumulated weight of a dynamic that required me to need her more than she needed me — and the ending felt like grief and relief simultaneously and I have stopped trying to decide which one was the right response

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Christian Kelly @ Silicon Canals · today 06:30 EDT

I’m 44 and I recently ended a friendship that had been slowly making me smaller for years — not through cruelty, she was never cruel, but through the accumulated weight of a dynamic that required me to need her more than she needed me — and the ending felt like grief and relief simultaneously and I have stopped trying to decide which one was the right response

The moment I realized I'd been unconsciously making myself smaller for over a decade just to maintain a friendship that was slowly suffocating me, I felt something crack open inside—a mix of recognition, loss, and unexpected freedom.

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