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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone else?
My high school friends are scattered and a few have splintered off with time, which is normal, I suppose. Ditto college. We mainly communicate via memes or some text threads.
The adult friends I made in my 20s all are now busy with families, me included; seems there's never a great time to meet up, and some have moved.
I love my neighborhood and have cultivated some solid friendships there, originally through my kids, but the guesswork sucks. I don't want to come off as too aggressive or needy, so I limit invites or texts. I thought I clicked with one person --  but several hangouts later, they basically ghosted and stopped reciprocating, our text thread went dormant, and...poof.
Anyone else in this boat? I just feel low-level stressed and somewhat lonely as a middle-aged mom.
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I am someone that enjoys my friendships and have multiple friends from various stages in my life that I see fairly often. I think one of the most important things in adult frienships is flexibility and giving people some grace. Bad things can happen in people's lives that cause them to have limited bandwidth. Reach out again if you really connected with someone, even if it has been a few months. You may find that they had some sort of crisis and are now in a better place.[/quote]

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