How do you make single mom friends?

[Anonymous]

Genuinely curious! It seems like all the moms I meet these days are married and like doing couples things. It would be nice to have a single mom friend to relate to and hang out with. How do you go about meeting them?

[Anonymous]

Great question!

[Anonymous]

What an awkward question.

I’m a single mom and really, truly do not want to hang out with married moms who want to “go about” meeting single moms.

If you can’t make organic friendships with a variety of people, .. I just .. don’t even know what to say to you.

[Anonymous]

Single moms are not a monolith.

[Anonymous]

At the playground — I’m a single mom and chat with lots of other parents at the playground and have met several other single moms that way. Back before Covid I also was in a single moms by choice meetup group and I’ve kept in touch with some folks from that via group chat.

[Anonymous]

If you look on Facebook there are several groups for divorced women, single moms, single parents, etc. Also at the playground or just chatting to parents at school functions. I'm a single mom and have both married and single mom friends.

[Anonymous]

OP here, I’m a single mom with a 17 year old. So we’re beyond the playground years. That’s actually how I met some of my current friends, however they are married. As far as school functions, she attends a school where the parents aren’t really involved so it’s hard to meet them at school functions. I guess I could try social media.

[Anonymous]

Bars

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What an awkward question.

I’m a single mom and really, truly do not want to hang out with married moms who want to “go about” meeting single moms.

If you can’t make organic friendships with a variety of people, .. I just .. don’t even know what to say to you.

Are you always so surly?

[Anonymous]

Same way I make married mom friends. I have an active life and go to church, socialize, volunteer and have a job. I meet people in all of those activities. I’ve been a single mom for a long time and have never just sought out other single moms.

[Anonymous]

Bumble BFF. I'm in Canada, but I believe Bumble is across North America. I've met excellent single mom friends with same age kids and it's been great!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What an awkward question.

I’m a single mom and really, truly do not want to hang out with married moms who want to “go about” meeting single moms.

If you can’t make organic friendships with a variety of people, .. I just .. don’t even know what to say to you.

Are you always so surly?

I guess there's a reason she's single!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What an awkward question.

I’m a single mom and really, truly do not want to hang out with married moms who want to “go about” meeting single moms.

If you can’t make organic friendships with a variety of people, .. I just .. don’t even know what to say to you.

It is pretty obvious that OP is single and looking for other single moms to be friends with. Probably because OP wants friends who are in similar situations as her. Before being rude, take the time to actually read a post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here, I’m a single mom with a 17 year old. So we’re beyond the playground years. That’s actually how I met some of my current friends, however they are married. As far as school functions, she attends a school where the parents aren’t really involved so it’s hard to meet them at school functions. I guess I could try social media.

Definitely try social media. You can see if there is a local single moms group on Facebook. You can ask in your community group or start your own group by posting a request.
You can try "meetups" based on something that interests you because there are a lot of single people involved.

[Anonymous]

I hear you OP.

My kid is grown now, but married people were always telling me how common my situation is.

Yet, in Bethesda, I found myself surrounded by families with dads.