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[quote=Anonymous]I think it’s easier for adults with different schedules to be friends than it is for children with different schedules. I’m a SAHM who is friends with mostly WOHM friends, but also some SAHMs. When I have a moms’ night out with my friends, I really look forward to kid-free time, adult conversation, getting dressed up, going someplace for dinner that my kids wouldn’t like, staying out late. However, it’s hard to schedule play dates for my kids with WOHMs, because they want weekend play dates and I don’t. If my kids are too young to be in school yet, then I am around my kids 24/7, so on the weekends, dh and I trade off sleeping in, the kids like staying in their pajamas for a while after they get up, and we’ll want to do something as a family. It’s nice to be able to split childcare responsibilities with dh or let the kids have a bit of screen time while I get a break. It’s a dynamic that would be ruined by adding more children to the mix. The last thing I want after parenting solo 24/7 M-F is to have even more children to watch on the weekends. A play date on Tuesday afternoon means my house will be cleaner (I’m more lax about picking up on the weekends), and that’s a day I’m in kid mode all day. I feel like it would be rude of me to accept your invitations for weekend play dates, but then only offer to reciprocate on weekdays, which you can’t accommodate, and I don’t want to host play dates on weekends.[/quote]

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