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[quote=Anonymous]I’m not even sure why I am posting - maybe in hopes that some of you will have some tips?

I got a divorce a few years ago and the outside world thinks I have it all together. I have a great career, great friends, a great financial situation and am very attractive.

But I have become increasingly anxious about any type of moderately social situations outside of my core friend group when it’s mostly couples, and I have no idea why I feel this way. I recognize that it makes no sense.

As part of this anxiety, I have pulled back in a lot of situations and now I am legitimately on the outside where at first it was probably just my perception. For example, I avoided all swim team parent social events the last two summers, of which there is one each week.

That turned me into an outsider in a way I wasn’t before, so the thought of going just fills me with even more dread and anxiety each year. I hate going to back to school nights.. my daughter’s softball games.. you name it.

I did start taking an antidepressant and am in therapy, but that hasn’t changed the anxiety I feel about these circumstances. I know I just need to suck it up and get over it, but I’m really struggling.

I think I just feel shameful about the divorce and I feel like such a socially awkward outsider among all of the other couples. [/quote]

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