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We might be making friends!

EnglishMajor03EnglishMajor03 member
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Okay, this might be lame for some of you social butterflies but DH and I are not natural people magnets.  We're both relatively quiet keep stick to ourselves.  I wouldn't call us shy, though. Once we are comfortable with people there are no issues and we're extremely social/affable. 

But we've had a hard time making parent-friends since the girls. We still have our college friends and some singles but we're really struggling with finding friends who are also parents.  Well, DH came home yesterday and he got an invite from a co-worker (they're close) to celebrate his wife's bday out this weekend.  The guy seems really, really nice from what I've heard about him and the wife just gave birth to her 2nd baby about 3 months ago.  

They just seem like nice people and I'm probably ridiculously excited about this for no reason but I'm really hoping we hit it off.  Plus it'll be so nice to just get out and enjoy some adult time. 

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Re: We might be making friends!

  • Geek_GirlGeek_Girl member

    That's great!

    We're pretty much in the same boat.  DH and I got together later in life and he's older than me and DS is only going to be 2 this summer.  All of our friends have kids in HS or college and I think they're "over" the kid thing so they don't really want to hang out anymore.

    I just made a new friend and her son is a month older than DS and we all get along well together.  Now we just have to get the 'big boys' together.  They both play guitar, and I think that would be really cool for DH since the only good friend he has that plays has a wife who doesn't let him out of the house (she's a major control freak), so it would be cool if DH could meet my friends H and if they get along, maybe play together once in a while.

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  • EveryNameIWantIsTakenEveryNameIWantIsTaken member
    I'm envious!  It is SO hard to make friends that you can do things as a family or just a couple with, that both spouses enjoy the company of. Does that make any sense at all?? lol
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  • JennaHopeJennaHope

    Thank you for sharing this as I feel we are in the same position. I have been longing for other parent friends and have been envious of my FB friends who always seem to have somone to hang out with. In our case, DH is very social and is still friends with all the guys from high school. We used to all be close but there's enough distance between us now that it makes getting together difficult with having small children. He sees some of the guys every couple of months and I have a couple of girlfriends that I see as well but no one to hang out with or swap babysitting regularly. He's actually ok with this as he feels the need to be productive on the weekend but I'm realizing that I need more. There's one couple from DS' pre-school that I've been trying to get to know as possible friends. Their 2 are the same ages as DS and DD which is perfect. Plus the younger ones play for a bit when we drop the older ones off. I haven't wanted to seem needy or pathetic but they are nice and seem so similar to us. Hoping it works out for both of us!

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  • eaglesfan700eaglesfan700 member

    That is awesome!  I hope you have a great time!

    When we moved here last year, all the moms on my block seemed really close.  They were all really nice to me, but I still kind of felt like I was on the outside.  We all went out to dinner last night and it was a lot of fun

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