I know that the first five or six years with my daughter were pretty hard that way. I lost one friend who thought I was being hostile when she and her husband came over to play games with my husband, and well... I was sitting in the next room, supervising a small child and making sure she got fed and into bed and everything was ready for the next day, and a lot of the time I was in a lot of physical pain, too. I've never figured out exactly what she expected me to do, possibly come into the room where they were playing and hang out with them, leaving my daughter to do who knows what. Not that I wasn't tempted...

That friend has an almost two year old now, and I think she's reconsidered. At any rate, she's willing to talk to me again.