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When Mutual Friends Choose Sides — from The Hard Days Collection

The Hard Days Collection

When Mutual Friends Choose Sides

Getting Through the Friendships That Don’t Survive the Divorce

by William “Billy” Brown

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About the book

A quiet reckoning, written plainly

Some friendships built during a marriage belong more to the marriage than to either person individually, and a divorce can end them just as surely as it ends the relationship. A short, honest guide to the friendships that don’t make it across.

What readers will find inside

Why this happens. The specific pain of a friend disappearing without explanation. Handling a friend who relays what your ex has said about you. And building new friendships without carrying old bitterness into them. Written plainly, for a loss that rarely gets named.

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Chapter One

From the opening pages

Some friendships built during a marriage belong more to the marriage than to either person individually. A divorce can end them just as surely as it ends the relationship — sometimes with a conversation, more often with a quiet disappearance.

This short book covers why this happens, the specific pain of a friend vanishing without explanation, handling a friend who relays what your ex has said about you, and building new friendships without carrying old bitterness into them.

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About the author

William “Billy” Brown

William “Billy” Brown
Billy, at home in Scotland

Billy is a Scottish engineer, author and musician who spent more than thirty years working around the world before he ever thought of himself as a writer.

He writes from lived experience rather than theory — about work, love, distance, and the quieter lessons a working life hands over.

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