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[quote=Anonymous]I'm also an only whose parents didn't really hang out with people or have friends I was aware of. I always commented on it, but it wasn't necessarily bad and I don't think it impacted my friendships. I do recall dinners and stuff, but they were more one offs of "catching up" rather than recurring friends we saw regularly and had real relationships with. They had a few friends -- usually single men, oddly -- and would bring me along to meet them for coffee or breakfast maybe every 6 weeks or so.

I have an only and have a lot of friends. My DH and I share some friends, but don't have a lot of couples we regularly hang out with besides neighbors. Certainly we are 100x more social than either of our parents were.

I think a lot of parents these days idealize the neat package of couple friends with same-aged kids that you can hang out with and vacation with and the parents are close and the kids are close. That never did appeal to me, and my child would revolt if we forced that.

I think me, my DH, and our kid all make friends in our own way and feel ok about that, pandemic notwithstanding. My parents in their older age socialize a lot more now, too, which is positive. [/quote]

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