8 Keys to Help Keep Our Kids from Pulling Us Apart {Part 4}

*This is Part 4 of our series on Keys To Keeping Our Kids from Pulling Us Apart. You can read Part 1 HERE, Part 2 HERE. and Part 3 HERE.

7.   Have girlfriends.

Recently I joined ten other gals for a surprise slumber party for my friend Sue’s birthday. We did skits, we cooked, we laughed, we talked and talked. It was thoroughly invigorating. All that estrogen would have exhausted any man! Yet for us, it was pure encouragement.

Women need women. It makes us better wives.

Why?

Women understand one another.

When my kids were little, I quickly learned that I needed to be in a small group with other mothers of young children. It was all too easy for me to expect my husband to understand why I was feeling down from a long day of changing diapers, wiping noses, and breaking up sibling fights.

But sometimes he just couldn’t seem to understand or to appreciate me. I finalized realized that it was unrealistic to expect him to! He’s not a woman! What we need are other young moms who can say, “I know just how you feel.

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