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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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It gets worse once your kids leave school.[/quote]

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Why does it get worse when your kids leave? I'd think then I'd have more time to spend with my friends![/quote]

You meet a lot of parents at school functions, band concerts, soccer games etc and their kids might be coming and going to your house. Once the kids scatter in all directions for college, you have fewer chances to interact with those parents. Your main connection was the school.[/quote]

Hmm. A few of my friends are the moms of my kids' friends but my closest friends I have known way before I even had kids. I could see becoming less close to certain people if our kids weren't interacting anymore but we also do things without the kids, so while the children are the reason we know each other, they're not the glue that hold us together. [/quote]

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