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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isn't just a parent thing - in adult friendships there are organizers and there are accepters, it's best to have multiple organizers so everyone feela confident and liked but sometimes one person just has to take on more of that role. The alternative isn't that it will even out and become fair. It's that you won't have as much of a friendship.[/quote]
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Frankly, we had this issue as DINKS.  My husband, in particular, is a planner, and has been since college.  Some people are not initiators; we just decided that if we really enjoyed someone's company, we would do all the inviting and not be resentful, and just enjoy the time we spent with them (and never feel guilty about how much we saw them).  If we found ourselves annoyed that someone wasn't reciprocating invitations, we took it as a sign that we weren't enjoying their company that much.  That said, we are definitely better friends with people who also do the initiating sometimes--people we might not initially have thought we'd be as close to, but they made the effort to reach out, too, so now we are.  Sometimes it's a parent thing, but sometimes it isn't.  [/quote]

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