With all of my children having vacated my home for 8 hours
of the day, a new chapter has opened up to me.
While at first I was apprehensive, I have seen something truly new and
challenging happening. Making real and
close friendships while having to give so much time and attention to my
children, used to be so tough, the work involved, well, it was too much and the
result: as it tends to happen to many
Moms, is the lack of true friendships.
Sure we have friends, but when examining closely, I found those friends were more like acquaintances, or superficial relationships without the real meat of understanding each other, giving support, encouragement and motivation.
So in the past month, a friendship of mine, which used to be more work related has evolved into a closeness that I haven’t had, probably since college. And just today, I realized that she was there for me, in the few first days that school started and my home was so empty. She called me, we sat at Starbucks, cried to…
Sure we have friends, but when examining closely, I found those friends were more like acquaintances, or superficial relationships without the real meat of understanding each other, giving support, encouragement and motivation.
So in the past month, a friendship of mine, which used to be more work related has evolved into a closeness that I haven’t had, probably since college. And just today, I realized that she was there for me, in the few first days that school started and my home was so empty. She called me, we sat at Starbucks, cried to…