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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a flakey friend. We are working parents with busy kids and really no time for our own social lives st this point in life.

I think of my friends often, and want to reach out text or something but often at like 1am as I’m cleaning the kitchen when a text would be inappropriate. Sending an email is possible, but an email should have more content than “hey just think thinking of you, what’s up” so that has its own barrier to completion.

I hope to maintain these friends through the season of child rearing that I’m in, but I know that being in and out is not appreciated, but I hope to have some who hang on with me so I can rekindle these old friendships once my life is less spoken for.

This is one lesson I give my daughters, as I feel so isolated — make sure you structure your life so you have time for yourselves — which means basically you need to make sure the mom has time to be the social center of the family so needs a part time or flexible or no job. I have a demanding 60 hour week job, with 3 kids and a DH who is slightly more flexible, but he’s useless for developing friendships for us as a couple I’ve found, and most of our neighbors and friends coordinate through the moms. [/quote]

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