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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve been in DC for 20 consecutive years now (have also lived here in other times of my life), and we do have a great community and lots of friends but everyone is busy (for the most part). My closest friends from childhood, HS, college don’t live anywhere near DC, so over these 20 years I’ve developed newer friendships and many of those are now going on 10-20 years, but I also do have newer friends in the last 2-5 years as well. I will say it really takes time and effort to find your people. Most of the relationships I focus on are the ones that are reciprocal. I’m extroverted by nature so I do invite people to things a lot, but the people I am good friends with invite me to stuff too (even if it’s not totally reciprocal). Some of my friends struggle now with depression, loss of job and income, etc..in those cases, I do make more effort with them because they need it right now. They always say yes to doing things. I also have a friend group that’s been together about 20 years here now and there is one main person who does the majority of the social coordinating, although others alternate hosting here and there. Anyway, it takes a lot of time, and it’s so much harder the older you get! I find the mom friends are more easily made in the early years - babies, preschool, early ES. [/quote]

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