The day you become a parent, you are given this enormous responsibility and privilege to raise a child. A responsibility and privilege so great that everything else falls by the wayside. Everything we do becomes solely about the children; it completely changes our lives. Our priorities, our schedules, our dinners, even the TV programs and music we listen to change. It is both a blessing and a curse to begin this journey, because when we’re busy being the best parent we can be, we start sucking at everything else.

Included in this is our relationships with friends. I was recently texting a frie...