Friendaholic

Overall, I really enjoyed Elizabeth Day's voice in this book. She's funny and introspective, has a keen eye for picking the right details to include, and her stories are relatable. I wanted to relate to her more on how friends who have children while you don't become lost in their motherhood and connection with them as friends and people independent of that moniker of "mom" becomes difficult and often requires you to end the relationship or change it dramatically into something that does not resemble what inspired you about that person. However, she focused mostly on her sadness and devastation around not being ABLE to carry a child, which I don't relate with. I chose not to have children and have lost many friends because of this. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely sympathized with her sadness, and I can fully understand why she would focus on that as a life experience and help relate it to the experience of others - it is a story of HER relationship with friendship after all, but I do wish she'd had more to say for us folks who chose to live childfree and how it impacts our friendships. Just a minor nitpick really in a fantastic and heartfelt book on a relationship that is ever-present in most of our lives, has various levels of intense intimacy, holds many rules of engagement, and yet is rarely spoken of - adult platonic friendships.