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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tisdale’s article appeared on my newsfeed today right next to the headlines about Tatiana schlossberg’s funeral and untimely death from aggressive cancer. A stark contrast and a reminder of how completely asinine and unimportant this entire topic is. It’s pedantic that cliques exist amongst grown adults and attention and validation seeking that tisdale would write an article about it. People lack perspective on what’s important in life. [/quote]

Of course it seems unimportant compared to someone dying at a young age from cancer. 99% of this website is unimportant compared to that.

But friendships, finding support as a mom, and just generally having community are actually very important. [/quote]

Which you can do without the friend “group” angle.  Your own mom, or other women who have raised kids and share their wisdom and advice, coworkers, one-on-one friends.  There’s so many ways to have the support and community, without the “group” part of it.  
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It's harder than you're making it sound. Many people don't have moms who will do what you say here, or live far from their moms (sometimes out of necessity -- I live far from my mom because there are no jobs other than waitress within a 4 hour drive). None of my coworkers had kids. A couple friends had kids but I could only see them a couple times a month because of scheduling.

So I did what lots of women do a joined a group of new moms in my neighborhood, a bunch of women who all had babies within like 6-8 months. We met through a list serve. This is what lots of women do because it's the best way to find other women near you who are going through the same thing.[/quote]

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