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[quote=Anonymous]I made my peace a couple years ago in my late 40s that I'm not going to make many new friends moving forward.  I have 2 kids.  I loved my 20s and early 30s when I had a zillion friends and was a great Type A networker career girl.  I'm just at a different stage in my life now.  I'm an interesting person.  I live a VERY uninteresting life.  Because I'm married and have kids now.  That's just a fact. There are very very very very very few people (who need to have a lot of money and/or career opportunities) who are able to lead an interesting life while having a family (kids less than teenage years let's say).  I had a very interesting life until I got "settled" because that's what settling is - it's settling.  You can't travel as much, you can't party as much, you can't just look out for yourself.

I have responsibilities, commitments and my time is not mine for sure.  I love my family a lot.  All this is to say is that I am a certain kind of person with certain tastes that are very different than those who maybe did not lead very interesting lives prior to being settled.  I travelled extensively, hung out with famous people, lived a very different lifestyle than now.  And that's OK but it's all say that I'm not gonna click with many people especially in the DC area.  I tend to do better with people who choose not to live in DC because let's face it this is a town that is made up of lawyers, lobbyists and government types.  It's all good but you have to know yourself.  I am fine entertaining myself by movies, a very small group of parents who I can get along with because of my kids, my old friends and some work colleagues.  How much time do you really have?  Your world gets smaller as you get older it's a function of not just time and opportunity but because you know yourself better and when you do, you realize there's only so many people you really want to be friends with.

I have a lot of acquaintances and nobody who knows me would have thought I would write these words but it's all true.  I'm best friends with my family and ultimately that's enough at this time in my life.  Good luck!![/quote]

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