Why Can't Our Friendship Survive Your Baby?

Nothing threatens adult relationships like when some friends have kids and others don’t.

Photo: Bobby Doherty This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Over the past three years, all but two of Sasha’s core group of high-school friends have had children, and of her core group of college friends, half of them have had children and others are in various stages of family planning. In that time, Sasha has been trying to start a family too, struggling through failed IVF cycles. Sometimes, admittedly, she found it difficult to stay close to her friends who were successfully starting families while she su

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