Growing-Apart
What is Growing-Apart?
A relationship that used to be close is slowly becoming distant. Nobody's fault — just change.
When you might feel growing-apart
Growing-Apart is a specific form of drifting, which itself is a type of disconnected. You might experience this feeling in situations where disconnected is present, particularly when the circumstances align with the nuances that define growing-apart.
Emotional Hierarchy
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Use our free interactive feeling wheel to explore growing-apart and discover related emotions.
Open Connection & Loneliness WheelRelated Emotions
Time and distance have thinned the thread. You're still technically connected bu...
Once close, now far. An old bond that has quietly broken....
Interactions that stay safely shallow. Nothing real gets exchanged....
Going through the social motions without genuine contact. Present but not real....
The form of connection without the substance. People around you but not with you...
Connection no longer seems to matter. You've stopped caring whether you have it....