Gaining Mom-entum
Gaining Mom-entum on Friendship: Friending While Parents
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Welcome back to Gaining Mom-entum! This pod’s first season began with Meghan & Abi celebrating their friendship as they invited the GM community to get to know them. Throughout the season, they have talked about race & racism, gender, mental health, and consent. They could not have had the conversations they did in the ways that they did without this week’s topic: friendship. What better way to celebrate friendship than talking about their favourite celebrity besties? After discussing the celebrity BFFs they admire and wish they could be a part of, they dig right into parenting and friendships. Abi & Meghan talk about what they look for in parent friends, how their friendships have changed since having kids and celebrating the friendships in their lives. They get into the challenges they’ve faced in maintaining friendships since becoming parents, what they wish their friends knew, and friendship breakups. Abi gets in a couple of plugs for her upcoming CBC Life article on friendship. Then they discuss how becoming parents has helped them to be more assertive in their friendships. They contemplate whether or not they should be treating their friendships with the time and attention they give to their romantic relationships. And of course, Meghan & Abi take a mom-ent to celebrate their friendship.
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Music by: Evan Dysart (Follow Dysaart on Spotify and Bandcamp)
Artwork by: Catherine Cachia (IG: @catherinecachia, catherinecachia.com)
Some Resources for Reading, Listening, and Learning:
It Takes a Village: 4 Lessons on Friendships and Parenthood (Psychology Today)
The Loneliness of Early Parenthood (The Atlantic)
15 Things My Childless Friends Need to Know (Scary Mommy)