I miss my moms.

We came together as a group during one of those important transition moments: Our kids were leaving their safe, nurturing child care center, heading for “big school.” All working moms, we were struggling with the guilt of changing circumstances, wondering if we’d made the right decisions about the next steps for our kids.

Nine of us had kids around the same age, and we needed each other.

Click here to read the rest of my column, and then tell me what you thought — have you been in mom’s groups, or book clubs or any other kind of regular group that’s lasted a long time? What are your secrets? Why did it last?