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[quote=Anonymous]Now I want to know what the other thread was.  Missed it.

I am an open and friendly person.  I like people, and I always have a large group of friends.  I know a lot of people that I would like to be better friends with - other people from my kid's school, or soccer, or whatever.  But for a variety of reasons, it's not in the cards.  It's harder to be friends with someone when you don't have a natural way of getting together - like I used to be better friends with someone I served on a committee with at the PTA level.  We worked well together and genuinely liked each other.  But her kids were in 5 and 3, and mine were in 4th and 2nd, and so post committee (and now post elementary school) we just don't run into each other naturally.  And once kids go to different middle schools and different high schools, well, there's little chance.

So some of it is time, means, and opportunity.  There's a wide group of people I could be friends with, but it's harder if I never see you.

Facebook has helped me keep in touch with the group of elementary parents we really liked, and post covid I expect to see some people, even though our kids aren't as close.

I think if someone is reaching out, and you just can't meet them where they are, you can do as you suggest and say something, or just do the best you can.  People learn - you might be a friend who can meet for coffee during practice, and you're not a friend who can meet for coffee another day.  I wonder if you're just making it more than it is?  [/quote]

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