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[quote=Anonymous]Wow this whole thread seems pretty sad. OP remember this is an anonymous often harsh board and doesn’t necessarily represent this area! There are lots of people here that enjoy and work towards supportive community. I don’t think what OP is looking for is out of range at all. Of course you should have friends close enough to text and ask how you’re feeling after surgery. I don’t think she expected her friends to provide childcare all day, but I also think it would be totally normal to to ask a good friend to take the kids to the park with their kids for an hour in the afternoon that day to help. I would encourage you OP to ask directly a couple times and see what happens. Honestly sometimes people aren’t good at anticipating what others need. It’s a bummer but true. As long as you also offer when they go through something similar you can and should ask for help sometimes!. I’m really sorry your friends haven’t been thoughtful and I do think people deserve people around them.

I do wonder if you’d be open to a church, if not religious Unitarian Universalist churches can be wonderful for this. I think it’s the type of community you’re looking for. It is completely reasonable to want to feel thought of and seen by your friends. To others giving a hard time about the husband going away, I’m sure that wasn’t their ideal scenario and something they would have avoided if they could. We all have situation where we get stuck in difficult decisions around childcare and work.

I hope you find your village soon op! [/quote]

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