Why can’t we be friends: Does having a baby ruin relationships with childless people?

Perhaps it is okay to hit the pause button and give the friendship a break when a child comes around.

It is a truth not universally acknowledged, that people do not care that much about other people’s children. PHOTO: ST FILE
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“I have nothing to say to these people. All they talk about is enrichment classes,” my wife whispered in my ear.

She had somehow found herself trapped in a group of mothers at a social gathering and, not being one herself at the time, felt like she had been dropped into the middle of an alien civilisation. I felt her pain.

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