Friends Mom ((new)) -

There’s a unique kind of relationship that doesn’t get talked about enough: the one you have with your best friend’s mom.

If you tell her (or your friend) you’ll have them home by 10 PM, make sure it happens. 4. Setting Healthy Boundaries friends mom

Never leave a dish in the sink or a mess in the living room. Clean up after yourself and your friend. There’s a unique kind of relationship that doesn’t

There is something validating about being liked by the matriarch of the group. She has seen you cry over a breakup, celebrate a promotion, and eat an entire tray of nachos. She knows you. And when she tells you she’s proud of you, it feels like a bonus parent stamp of approval. Setting Healthy Boundaries Never leave a dish in

You are not obligated to share your personal "vault" of secrets with her; keep some topics between you and your friend.

Mark finally showed up an hour late. We hugged, I grabbed a leftover brownie, and I left.

When you’re young, you assume your friends' parents were always old. Now, when I look at Diane, I don't just see Mark’s mom. I see the girl from Oregon. I see the young wife. I see the exhausted mother of a toddler. It makes the gray hairs look less like aging and more like earned wisdom.