Hi, Priya here, and this is The Group Chat Went Quiet. Today is a hard one for me, so I am going to be honest from the start. My friend Shireen and I were close for fifteen years. Holidays, breakups, her wedding, my divorce, all of it. In 2024 she had a baby boy. And then, slowly, nothing. Daily messages became weekly, then a thumbs up, then a long gap I stopped counting. Nobody fell out. Everybody was just tired. So today I have Hannah, a listener with a toddler, who is going to tell me what my messages probably looked like from her side of the pram. And then, with her permission, I am going to phone Shireen on this show for the first time in eight months. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts. Wish me luck.