performance

by rantywoman

http://gateway-women.com/2013/02/22/healing-the-friendship-gap-between-mothers-and-the-childless/#comments

We need to find a way to open a dialogue between mothers and nomos (not-mothers, my term). To name, describe and domesticate the elephant in the room. If intimacy and honesty are really the same thing, without being honest with each other, friendships become a performance. And then they wither away and die.