Motherhood can often be a lonely experience.

For Nicola, her circle is small, and that might be exactly how she’s designed it.

“This might honestly be a little sad to admit, but I stopped updating people on my kids if they didn’t ask,” she shared in a recent TikTok.

“Nobody checked in on me”

Posting under the username @nicolavarlamos_, the mom revealed a quiet truth many mothers face when it comes to maintaining friendships . Especially with friends who don’t have children 3

“I think this is why I’m not really friends with any of my friends who I was friends with pre-kids,” she explains.

“Pretty much nobody checked in on me and my kids after I had my first daughter, so I just stopped updating people.”

Nicola stopped sending unsolicited photos, updates and little glimpses into

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