Is it harder to make friends when you’re a parent?

For me, it is

This morning, I opened my email and saw the latest NYT Parenting newsletter, this one aptly titled, “Are Mom Friends Necessary?” The editor, Jessica Grose, usually writes a little blurb about the topic of the week (it varies each week, but all related to parenting, of course), and for this week’s newsletter, she talked about her experience having her first kid at 29 years old and being the youngest person in her group of friends to have children and the experiences that followed after having children. I felt like she was talking…