In this episode of While I've Got You, Gabby sits with the tension underneath so many friendships: knowing whether to address what's wrong, or just adapt around it. Drawing from months of friends reaching out to her for help navigating their own friendship conflicts, she turns the question back on herself, why is this so much harder to work through in her own relationships than the way she helps others work through theirs.

She traces the idea of "outgrowing" a friendship and lands somewhere more honest: growing differently, or at a different pace, rather than one person moving forward and the other staying behind. From there she works through what's actually salvageable in a friendship and what isn't, and why the guilt of a quiet fade can sit heavier than a dramatic falling out ever does.

The episode moves through real, specific stories, a friendship that ended cleanly and never came back, another that went quiet for years before she stood in that friend's wedding, and a much more recent moment where choosing to ask instead of assume changed everything. Gabby also turns the lens inward, naming the parts of her own personality, and the patterns underneath them, that make staying in vulnerability harder once it's met with anything less than full acceptance.

Feed the Love We Desire is out now on While I've Got You.