drift apart

to be less close to someone

• I've drifted apart from my friends.
• My husband and I, we have drifted apart, and now we don't know how to reverse the process.
• Jane used to be one of my best friends at school but we've drifted apart over the past few years.
• We know that sometimes, on both sides of the Atlantic, we have drifted apart, and forgotten our shared destiny.