'I will always celebrate Galentine’s Day'

Abi Louise Roff shares how four friends in her life have been an invaluable support, and why we women should keep looking out for each other.

Recently a friend and I were both going through a stressful time. She shared an article she had read that claimed men had less stress because they tended to live in the moment more. She joked that her new mantra was: ‘Be more man’.

Whether that theory holds out or not, (it seems debatable to me) my friend and I are mothers and we agreed that we couldn’t simply just think about the ’here and now’ because we had children to consider. Little ones who needed feeding at dinner time and their uniform washed for school the next week.  Childcare and managing a household calls for some level of future thinking which this particular article considered a source of stress.