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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you need to keep in mind that the way you grew up doesn’t really exist anymore. People are really busy and they’re not really big groups of parent type friends with kids and if they do exist, they break apart by the time a kid is five years old anyway when the kids are going to school and activities start.

My kids are 10 and 13 and we never had a close knit group of parent friends. A play date is not going to ensure any kind of long lasting friendship and I think you’re naïve to think that that could end up being that way from a single play date. Most people are not that close it anymore with both parents working and people being really busy. I think you would experience this regardless of living near her parents.[/quote]

But PP, you're discouraging the OP and his DW from even attempting play dates. Good grief. Sure, they aren't necessarily a magical path to deep, long-lasting friendships among the adults, but they aren't useless either. At least his wife would be spending some time chatting with another adult who isn't her husband or her parents. She doesn't have to find her forever best friend, she just needs to make a start on socializing.

And if everyone's too busy for playdates these days, why does OP say that more than one parent has asked his wife about setting up a play date? Wherever they are, there clearly are some parents who want to make play dates work.

It's just not as much of a downer drama, or a big deal, as you're making it sound here. The OP doesn't need discouragement, he needs ideas for gently encouraging his wife to get outside what sounds like her comfort zone -- which isn't very comfortable since she's saying she lacks friends....[/quote]

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