# Episode 18 - When Your Friendship Group Is No Longer Growing at the Same Rate as You ( 2)

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Podcast: [The Skills Squad Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-skills-squad-podcast-6862993)
Published: 2026-03-06T23:39:51+00:00
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Duration seconds: 646

## Resource

You are in a room full of people who have known you for years and you feel like a stranger. Not because anything dramatic happened. Not because anyone did anything wrong. But because you grew. And the gap between who you are becoming and where your friendships are is getting harder to ignore. This episode is for everyone sitting with that quiet, guilty, unnamed grief. We talk about what is actually happening when friendships start to feel like they no longer fit, why it does not make you arrogant, what it costs to stay, and what love looks like from a different position than the one you used to occupy. This one is personal. And if you have been waiting for someone to say this out loud this episode is for you. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-skills-squad-podcast--6097332/support .

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