{"id":367653,"date":"2026-03-27T07:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367653\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T07:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T07:38:09","slug":"modern-morals-my-best-friend-of-30-years-dumped-me-after-i-had-a-baby-how-can-i-ever-get-over-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/367653\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Morals: My best friend of 30 years dumped me after I had a baby \u2013 how can I ever get over this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018It is always one-sided and she never makes or puts any effort into our friendship any more\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'I went through a very tough time postpartum with postnatal depression and she was never there for me'. Photo: Posed\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tyImages_1321468912.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;I went through a very tough time postpartum with postnatal depression and she was never there for me&#8217;. Photo: Posed\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I feel I have recently lost my best friend who I have known for almost 30 years. Since I had a child almost three years ago our friendship has become almost non-existent. When I would message her she might respond, but it would be maybe a month later (she can be like this when replying to other friends too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018It is always one-sided and she never makes or puts any effort into our friendship any more\u2019 &#8216;I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,11784],"class_list":["post-367653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-katie-byrne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}