Are They Friends of Frenemies?

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What Do I Do With Life Long Friends Who Now Have Animosity?

Over the weekend, I hosted a YouTube Live, and one question stayed with me. Someone asked: “how do you go about life long friends that were supportive when you were a small creator but now that you are a bigger creator start having animosity towards you?”

This question, really, is about growth.

How do I grow, but not lose myself? How do I grow, but not lose the people that are important to me? I want so badly to reach my dreams, but I don’t want to alienate people or hurt people’s feelings or be too big for them. We all have aspirations and dreams: we want to get into grad school, we want to get a promotion, we want to make more money, find the partner of our dreams. We want all of these things, but we also don’t want the basic, foundational things like our most important friendships to change.

It hurts when people don’t support us. Can’t they see how hard I’m working? Can’t they see how badly I wanted this, for so long? Why can’t they be happy for me? Does is really boil down to them just being jealous? Surely, their love for me might be bigger than this temporary lapse in being um, a friend, right?

This is one of the sides of growth that, frankly, we don’t talk enough about. This is one of the costs of success. Here are some guidelines that might help you:

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