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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. I do absolutely engage in the small talk, and I feel like I have built a small network of other families at school and in my older child's main after school activity where we have some rapport. So that's not the issue.

It's everyone else. Like at one other birthday parties we went to last weekend, the birthday kid is not in the same grade as my DC (they do an EC together and live nearby), so the party was full of families from their school class/grade and the only people we really knew were the birthday kid's parents. People were perfectly nice but it was hours of just chatting with all these parents who we're unlikely to every get to know better about all the same old subjects -- the school, parenting in general, vacation plans, weather, etc. That's so draining for me.

I feel like I took a job that requires me to socialize a lot, except I would never intentionally sign up for a job like that. My real job is perfect for an introvert -- I work solo most of the time and when I do work with others, it's 1:1 in small doses and either someone I've worked with a long time or our discussion is very focused. I would never take a job in politics or events or something where I had to talk to people all the time. And yet... that's kind of what parenting feels like sometimes.[/quote]

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