A woman comforts her friend with an embrace.nattrass/Getty ImagesMy group of close friends was made up of two couples and myself.We jokingly called ourselves "The Comune" because we did so much together.When one couple split, I mourned a relationship I wasn't in but still felt like mine"Costco has a good deal on AirTags; should we split them?"Texts of this nature were not uncommon to receive in our family group chat, except for the tiny detail that we weren't family — well, not in any traditional sense of the word, at least.