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[quote=Anonymous]Two very dear, long time friends of mine are child free by choice, one single and will likely stay child free and one with a partner and some chance of children in the future but still not sure. We’ve been able to maintain our friendships well. They genuinely care about my kids, and I try my best to not only talk about them. We talk about our careers, relationships, their dating, our other friendships. I make certain to recognize a variety of milestones for them since marriage/child bearing gets so many assumed milestone celebrations. And sometimes I talk about my parenting wins or struggles too, I appreciate they don’t seem to expect me to pretend that isn’t a huge part of my reality - if daycare choices are stressing me out, as my friend they are willing to listen and be empathic, it’s really nice. They are very kind and considerate around my schedule and do come to me more because they know things are a little more limited in these early years but I def try to make the effort if they’ve come to me a couple times to go to them. I make sure it isn’t like the world revolves around my schedule since I have kids, though I do feel they give a little more in this area which is kind of them. So I think it’s just about both being considerate of each other. I appreciate how they at least pretend to love to see pictures of my kids (one doesn’t live here) :)

just consideration on both ends of the friendship - we love each other and value our friendships, kids haven’t changed that at all. [/quote]

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