You can love your friends and still think their take is wrong. Friendship isn’t a group vote.

Agreement and loyalty get confused, especially in close groups where disagreeing feels like stepping back. Real closeness can hold a difference of opinion without turning it into a referendum on the friendship, and the ones that cannot were probably resting on agreement to begin with. Saying you see it differently is a way of taking someone seriously. Silent agreement is often distance with good manners.

Say where you differ next time, once, without arguing anyone into anything. Then carry on as normal. Most friendships absorb it easily and come out slightly sturdier.