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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, but I think all of you agreeing with OP are odd and I can’t help but wonder if it’s related to the many many posts from lonely women who can’t make friends in this area. No, it is not normal for families to only socialize with one another. [/quote]

100% agreed. I'm guessing the other lonely women who posted about struggling to make friends have run into someone like OP, who has no bandwidth for interaction outside of her kids and spouse. [/quote]

This. I have noticed this in our neighborhood and at our school. Some families just don't have time and aren't interested in other families. Often they are people who have extensive local family networks, so grandparents are over all the time or kids are over at cousins and they turn down all invites and view school social events as an imposition.

You have to learn to just let it go and not take it personally. It's a bummer when your kids wants to be friends with kids in a family like this and you discover you are just never going to be able to get them together outside of school. But it's a lesson for your kids too -- sometimes a person is just a situational friend and you don't see them outside a certain setting. And also sometimes friendships don't happen just for logistical reasons and no one is at fault and no on is being rejected. It's useful to learn this early because it will happen a lot as an adult. [/quote]

Growing up my family was like this. We only hung out with my cousins and my mom had her sister and SIL so she didn't need any other friends.
Now we are spread out all over the world and I'm dying to make friends![/quote]

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