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Age-wise, 30 to 35 is where lives will get divergent
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Age-wise, 30 to 35 is where lives will get divergent

There's a seven-or-so-year span where most of your connections are going to shift in some way, often majorly.

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Ted Bauer
Mar 22, 2018
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Back on October 1, 2014 I wrote a post called "Can you make friends after 30?" If I'm doing some basic math correctly, I would have been 33 when I wrote that. I'm now 37. Here's what happened in the intervening time:

  • Most of my friends changed

  • I got divorced

  • Getting divorced teaches you a ton about who's really there for you vs. who's not, so my friends sh…

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