Friendships In Motherhood, Part Two (Deepening & Widening Your Circle): Episode 308

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Conversations about friendship in motherhood often center around those ride-or-die besties that you just can’t imagine life without (which, as we discussed last week, isn’t always helpful). But as pandemic life has shown us in all kinds of ways, regular interactions with acquaintances, co-workers, fellow school parents, neighbors, and other “friendlies” are also really important to feeling rooted in a community and fulfilled in the friendship space. Today Meagan and Sarah look at these outer-circle relationships and share what 2021 looks like for us, how our listeners feel about the changes brought about by the past year, and what we hope our friendship landscape will look like a year from now. Join us!

LINKS MENTIONED:

This episode is part of a two part series on friendships; listen to the first episode Friendships in Motherhood, Part One (Redefining “Ride Or Die”): Episode 307
Meagan mentioned this article about friendships during the pandemic from The Atlantic
If you want more on the topic of friendship, check out Female Friendships & Women We Admire (PLUS Picture Books with Katie): Episode 227 and Keeping Friendships Alive: Episode 78
Check out our special Facebook Group for The Mom Hour Listeners (make sure to answer the questions to be approved!)

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from
0:05.2	little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages
0:09.0	of life but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share
0:12.7	tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're
0:16.6	not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.
0:19.9	Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 308 of the mom
0:26.3	hour. I am Megan Frances here with Sarah Power. Hey Sarah. Hey Megan. I'm so
0:31.0	glad you're one of my close friends. I am so glad too but what about all those
0:34.7	other friends? What about all the friends who've fallen off the radar? I don't
0:39.6	have any. It's you and my parents and my husband and my three-way boxer group.
0:44.4	That's it. That's all you got. Well that sounds like actually I think that
0:47.7	sounds like a pretty decent haul. I think that group sounds amazing. You
0:50.4	should like want this all over get us all in one room. Yeah. But we've been talking
0:54.2	about friendship and last week we talked about you know the phrase that's so
0:58.6	hot right now is right or die friends. We really talked about those close
1:01.9	friendships that girl squad that inner circle those people who are you know
1:06.7	going to be there for you through thick and thin and then I don't know we kind
1:10.2	of demystified some of the myths around what those friendships can look like
1:16.3	and talked about our own experiences of how they've really waxed and waned
1:19.4	over the years and then some very specific ways that that listeners have
1:24.1	shared that their best friends have showed up for them or how those
1:29.2	friendships got even tighter over the last year or so and then on the other
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