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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get mad about flaky friend or acquaintences anymore. I know that they do not have bandwidth for even day to day life.  I will host and invite but if they ask what to bring, I will assign them some thing that they can buy and get.  I have zero hopes that they will ever be able to reciprocate because they are too dysfuntional - so I convert the celebrations into potlucks.  However, they are not boring people so I don't mind hanging out with them. [/quote]

This is very true. There are some of us who are planners, there are some of us who just aren't. Putting together a girls' night out is easy for me but for others, that is a really daunting task. It doesn't mean they don't want to get together but if they have to make the plans, it won't happen. I have a friend who is always reaching out saying we need to get together, we pick a date and yet it is always up to me to put together the plan.  It is what it is.

My parents are the same way with travelling. If I plan the trip, book the trip, pay for the trip, they are usually open to going, doing whatever we want to do and paying for (usually more than their share of) the trip. But to book a trip on their own?? No way. They just don't have it in them to do it. I don't even think my mother would know how to book a plane ticket if she had to.[/quote]

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