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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you'd like to do things on nights/weekends without kids, why not also look for friends who aren't necessarily moms?

-woman without children around your age, who would love to make new friends who actually want to hang out without their kids sometimes[/quote]

OP here.  Yes, this is the next thing I need to try--I will try making friends who aren't moms.  I don't need my friends to be moms, but I do think it's going to be somewhat challenging to make friends who aren't moms, because I have limited free time that isn't taken up by kid activities to join additional hobby type groups.  For instance, if I was to join a gardening group, it would be hard for me to go to enough meetings/activities to meet women who don't have kids, because I am often taking care of my child on weekends while husband is working.

Plus, I found it next to impossible to make female friends pre-baby.  I tried to meet other married women without kids, and even single women, and found that none were interested in being friends (co-workers, meetup groups I joined, etc.)  Not sure if I feel like anything would be different now in terms of it being hard to make friends.

But I will try.  [/quote]

OP, it sounds like you have trouble making friends in general, rather than that most moms don't like to have fun or go out. It sounds like you're doing all the right things to meet other moms/friends, but for some reason you are unable to actually develop friendships, and that this was a problem for you even before becoming a mom. Did you have friends before you moved to the area?  Did your husband?  I don't know enough to guess why you'd have trouble making friends, but from what you've said, it did stand out to me that this is an ongoing problem for you vs. a new issue related to parenthood. [/quote]

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