🎄 In 2024, I thought a lot about friendship in my child-free forties
"What time did you get up today?" One of my friends is obsessed with asking this, hoping to hear tales of endless lie-ins and indulgent brunches. He imagines my child-free weekends in a bliss of luxurious nonchalance while his are filled with the chaos and thunder of three small children. "Actually, we had a few things to do this morning so I was up at 11am…" Of course, the truth is far more prosaic. We don’t get up at 11am that often. But my partner and I have spent a lot of time this year being reminded about the different path we have chosen to take to the majority of our friends.
Read: In 2024, I thought a lot about friendship in my child-free forties
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