How Friendships Change As You Grow Older

If you had told my 20-year-old self that friendships would one day feel complicated, I don't think I would have believed you. In our twenties, friendships often feel boundless—fuelled by late nights, unfiltered conversations, and an unspoken belief that your people will always be right there. Always available. Always unchanged.

But life, in all its quiet, inevitable ways, changes us—and it changes our friendships too.

I've been thinking a lot lately about the tender, sometimes painful evolution of friendships as we grow older. How it isn’t necessarily about "falling out" with people in anger or betrayal (although sometimes it can be). More often, it’s a drifting, a soft and confusing loosening of ties you once thought were unbreakable.