Category Archives: Envy

Misery Loves Company

Can a friendship survive when one party outgrows their joint suffering? We often bound with friends over shared distress. We’re both single and looking to meet someone. We married into the same zany family.  We report to the same tyranical boss.  You get the picture. The same holds true for our mom friends. We connect because our [...]
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Money Changes Everything

Since motherhood, Mary is finding it harder and harder to maintain her friendship with Cara. Mary can hardly believe she feels this way because she and Cara have been super close friends since college. Both are SAHMs, but Mary’s husband makes considerably less money than Cara’s. Whenever Mary and Cara hang out during the day [...]
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