Tag: friendship

Lost or Found? Our Sense of Personal Identity Within Motherhood

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One night, I found myself scrolling Instagram and going to a college friend’s page. She and I had the kind of dynamic that once...

Mom Struggles: the Challenge of Keeping Adult Friendships Alive

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It's no secret that I have had trouble making friends as an adult. Last year, I wrote a post about how hard it was...

Motherhood Support: Laying the Groundwork and Showing Up for Others

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Motherhood support is not something that I was graced with in the early stages of parenting. I entered motherhood as a terrified twenty-year-old, and my...

Four Kinds of Toxic Friends to Avoid in Your Adult Life

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I’ve written about making friends before and how I was happily complacent with not having a lot of friends. I didn’t say how I...

The Constancy of Friendship: A Tribute to a Beautiful Mother

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In April, I learned that one of my oldest and dearest friends had died. In between the surges of shock, of sadness, anger, and...

Why I am So Grateful for my Daughter’s Extracurricular Activities

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My eight year old daughter tried some new extracurricular activities this year and I am eternally grateful for the opportunity this presented me... Why?...

It’s Okay: A Letter to my First Timer Friends

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Dear Friends Who are Pregnant with Their First Child (or Who Just Had Their First), It's Okay. You and I might not have had a chance...

My Best Friend

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You know those women with one best friend? A friend like a sister, a forever partner in crime, and a soulmate. The sort of epic...

My Virtual Friends

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There’s something tragic and comical about being an extroverted stay-at-home single mom. I spend most of my time with my 5 year-old daughter, and...

Best Friend Heartbreak

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Upstairs tonight, I have two broken-hearted little girls tossing and turning in their beds. They are each missing an important piece of girlhood: a...

Young Mom, I love you.

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I was a young mom. My first child was born a few days after my 22nd birthday.  Four months after completing my time in the military and...

Ten Reasons to Dismiss Someone From Your Life

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The idea that I could dismiss someone was new to me, a foreign concept. I sat in my therapist’s office, drying my eyes, as she...

That Friend

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Growing up I counted myself lucky. I had a family, a home, and some pretty spectacular friends. It wasn’t until I had my own children,...