If I Stopped Trying Would My ‘Friends’ Reach Out to Me?

I’m having a moment.

Today I was walking, listening to a book, and the character in it was talking about how in her 20’s she had this full life, friends that felt like family, a great boyfriend (that becomes her husband) and how it all just changed one day. She’s older at this point in the story, and reflecting back.

The character talked about how her friends decided to have kids, and move to the ‘burbs from the city, and how everything changed, even though they all promised that it wouldn...