Working parent dealing w SAHM “envy”?
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Anonymous
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Do they not respond by asking about your job?
In that past 12 years I've been a sahm and also a working mom. I can honestly say I only encountered a handful of women I absolutely could not relate to, and most were military wives (we are not military but live in a city near a base). Most people know how to keep up their end of small talk. It goes for you too! You can engage in conversation about all of the things you mentioned (lunch, spa etc) can't you? |
Anonymous
| I would like to add a comment on affluent neighborhoods, since I moved to one recently. Rich people are not nice and open. They feel very guarded. I have still not figured out the right script to say, and I venture to say that I never will. Working makes it worse on a social scale because these moms have so much money and there is definitely a pecking order you’d have to get into. OP, I would honestly just not give a damn and find some other friends. Ironically, not caring will be the only way these moms will even become remotely interested. |
Anonymous
This! And it reads you have no desire to make actual friends with any pickup parents. So, pick up your kid while listening to podcast so you don’t hear or talk to anyone and then go home and interact with your co-workers and other working friends. |
Anonymous
+1 Add something fresh to the convo. This can change the course of the conversation. I’ve done this many times when people harped on certain topics. |