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[quote=Anonymous]Virtual hugs, OP.  A few disconnected thoughts:

1) It's OK to cry and vent when you hit your limit, this type of parenting is very hard.  
2) You're not alone; others have been through this and empathize.
3) 2 is really early in life.  Plenty of time for future development.
4) I know it's hard but try not to compare with other children's development.  In the final analysis it doesn't matter when play skills are developed, whether it happened as fast as with one's peers, as long as they are ultimately developed.
5) Again I know it's hard but try not to get caught up in where your child is developmentally at that moment.  Every day with any progress at all is a good day.  Don't compare with where you may want your child to be; focus on moving forward, inch by inch, from where they now are. 
6) When my child was  bit older than yours, they watched  a TV movie with a song about a first best friend.  I cried because I could not imagine them ever having a best friend based on their total perplexity in play situations.  Now DC is 8 and has tons of great friends at a regular school.
7) These are very complex skills.  For us playdates were two steps forward, two steps back for a very, very long time.  I think I cried after playdates up to the ages of 5-6.    Give yourself and your child some slack for how hard things are at age 2.[/quote]

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