See You Later or Goodbye? by Patty Blount
There's a trend floating around TikTok showing moms talking to their big kids about how one day, they held them for the last time, but didn't know it would be the last time. They then try to lift that big kid one more time and cue the tears... Friendships are a lot like that -- at least for me. I don't have many lifelong friends. I have transitive friends, situational friends, who tend to fall off the radar once whatever situation brought us together ends. I used to obsess over this. Cry buckets over it. Not any more. Friendships have expiration dates and I've accepted this. The friends I grew up with -- sure, they're on Facebook so we'll see each other when somebody dies. The friends I went to school with? Same deal. There are few of these lost friendship I DO lament. I was a hockey mom and grew very close to another hockey family when our boys were moving up the ranks and our husbands both coached. I literally saved this woman's life by giving her t...
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