fallings-out

Friendships gone sour

Fallings-out is the plural of falling-out, a serious quarrel or rupture in a relationship: The two brothers had multiple fallings-out over the family business.

The term implies disputes significant enough to cause estrangement, at least temporarily.

Also pluralized as falling-outs.

interpersonal

quarrel

Angry verbal dispute

breakup · alienation · feud · split · disagreement · rupture · breach · discord · hostility · separation

professional

resignation

Voluntary relinquishment of position

departure · firing · creative differences · contract dispute · office politics · burned bridges

familial

sibling rivalry

Competition between children sharing parents

generational conflict · family secret · custody battle · divided loyalties · family gathering · prodigal · favoritism · disinheritance

Opposites
relational harmony

fallings-outreconciliations

Restorations of friendly relations

rapprochements · reunions · friendships · alliances · making up

relationship trajectory

fallings-outreconciliations

Restorations of friendly relations

reunifications · healings · restorations · renewals · reconnections

conflict resolution

fallings-outagreements

Formal mutual arrangements

accords · truces · settlements · peace · understandings

Family

falling-out, fall, falls, fell, fallen, falling, fallout, outs, outing

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