New Mom: SAHM Friend
What’s a working mom to do? My very best friend is a SAHM living on the opposite coast from me. We talk on the phone often, e-mail regularly, and see each other once or twice a year when family functions, work, or other obligations bring us to the other’s neck of the woods. Recently, this friend took a long weekend trip away from home with another SAHM mom friend of hers. They had a blast, and I’m really glad for her. She needed and deserved the break, and had great girl fun. She enjoyed herself so much that when she returned home, she decided that she and I should do the same thing. It was her husband, in fact, who must have found his wife surprisingly renewed and refreshed after a break from her 3-year-old, who suggested it.
I love the idea and hate it all at once. Yes, it sounds like fun, but having just recently been away from New Girl for work travel, I really have no desire to leave her again for a completely voluntary weekend of fun. I know she, and all stay-at-home moms need that break. She is with her son almost 24/7, except the 10 or so hours a week he’s in preschool. I, on the other hand, am only with New Girl for about 10 waking hours during the entire workweek. While we both love, cherish, and adore our children, our relationships with them are very different, I think. Will that get in the way of our relationship with each other?
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It might. The fact that your lives are different, for now anyway, might contribute to a different set of priorities. At least until your SAHM friend's child will start full time school. Then you might be on the same page! And even then, things may not be exactly at par because your SAHM friend may not be working full time (if at all), therefore, your lives will be ruled by different forces. this doesn't mean you can't stay friends.... it might just take a little more effort to appreciate each other's life styles.
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