Our friendship survived bad dates, illness, marriage, fights. Why can’t it survive your baby??

“The friendship divide is not some dramatic breakup but a slow-rolling tectonic shift that neither side notices at first (especially the parents). The fissure often starts as an abstract fear of unknown agents of change (an emerging baby and an emerging parent) and the shared realization that two lives, which had been more or less plodding along a similar path, are about to diverge.”

Head to the link in bio to read more from read our latest cover story by @babymeatballs on the impact of parenthood on adult friendships.

Photo by @blobbybloherty for New York Magazine