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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you the sort of person who would join a church? That tends to provide an instant village.

I was in your position, OP, years ago. I had friends, but nobody I felt like I could call in an emergency. We just muddled through. It gets easier as the kids get older.  [/quote]
This! We were/are in the same position when we moved here - no close family at all (no sibs, parents died relatively young) and no cousins anywhere near. Joining a smallish UMC church with a preschool, active Sunday school, and youth group at least gave us a place where our kids had other loving and kind adults to interact with and opportunities to learn about serving others through mission work. We made some friends with a variety of people (no one super close as a personal friend), and had people happy to act as emergency contacts or share occasional carpooling for youth activities with. The most important thing though was if we had a true emergency, I knew I could call someone and they would show up, with love to help out. Thank goodness we never needed it, but I needed to know we had a trustworthy village to fall back on.[/quote]

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