grow apart
also grow away from sb— phrasal verb with grow uk/ɡrəʊ/us/ɡroʊ/verb grew, grown
If two people in a close relationship grow apart, or if they grow away from each other, they gradually begin to have a less close relationship, usually because they no longer have the same interests and want the same things:
There was nobody else involved - we just grew apart.
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Relationships: ending & divorce
- a parting of the ways idiom
- affiliation order
- annul
- break up
- break-up
- child support
- give sb the elbow idiom
- give sb the heave-ho idiom
- give sb the push idiom
- go off with sb
- grow
- heave-ho
- push
- split
- split up
- throw
- throw sb over
- tug of love
- visitation
- walk
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