Is it normal to grow apart from a best friend?
Over the past year, a close guy friend and I have grown apart.
We have been close for six years, lived in the same town but didn't attend the same high school, communicated daily and hung out a lot. We holidayed together, know eachothers families really well and have been apart of them for the same length of time.
Last year was the first year we had both lived in different places (it was our first year out of high school) and things have never been the same since.
Over the last year we had a period of not talking to each other much as we were both really busy, and reconnected properly after an argument about midway through. For some reason, since then things don't feel the same. We're always arguing which comes to no conclusion, we annoy each other in seconds and it just doesn't feel right anymore on my side. It's like I woke up one morning and nothing about our friendship felt right. So I wondered if maybe we've grown apart? I know I've definitely changed as a person due to a lot of serious things that have happened in my life over the past year which have changed me dramatically, while he has changed a little but not much.
I know with our plans in the future, we're both going to end up distant and it is starting to take its course. We've talked and talked about changing things but nothing actually does change, it's become a toxic friendship.
Is it normal to have this happen? Even when you've known each other so long and have been very close? And is there anyway to resolve it? It seems like right now we're both unhappy with the friendship, as its becomes more apparent how very different and unalike we are.