Life-long Friend

I don’t know how my mom and aunt maintained their close friendship while my mom became a mom three times over and my aunt was never able to have children. When I first outted myself to my mom, letting her know we had been trying and were having trouble, she mentioned how hard it was to tell her best friend (who I’ve always called my aunt) not once, not twice, but three times she was having a baby and my aunt was still not. My aunt was there when all three of us were born because she worked as a nurse in Labor and Delivery until about 7-8 years ago. Not long after my mom had a hysterectomy, my aunt also needed one and my mom mentioned how hard that was for her. When my aunt got divorced right around the same time I did, my mom said my aunt regretted never adopting a child (her husband was very opposed) and resented her husband for never considering it. My aunt is very special to me and because she now works in a pediatric doctor’s office, I frequently call her with child illness questions or concerns. I know that she has also always been involved in her niece’s lives (through her husband’s brother, she is an only child) and I think she also offers counsel to them with their little ones. I guess it is a testament to their relationship that it survived the years of infertility and babies to be as strong as ever now as they are in their 60’s (shh, don’t tell them I said that!).


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