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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP can I ask a genuine question? How personally fulfilled do you feel, and how are things at home? I’m just reading this incredibly intense focus on external socializing and it’s exhausting. With a spouse, a toddler, a baby, and at least one parent who lives an hour away, I’m just really struck at what feels like an urgent sense or need for near constant socializing. I’m not being critical of that at all. And I’m not particularly a homebody. It just feels like there’s a lot of unmet need on your part and I’m wondering what that’s about. I have lots of friends and I absolutely value their place in my life. So it’s really important. It’s just that the stage of life you’re describing is generally really busy for most of us and it’s curious that it seems like it feels so lacking to you.[/quote]

OP here; it's a valid question, but I actually feel like everything else in my life is in a really great place for the first time in a while. Both kids are happy and healthy, DH and I's marriage is in the best state it's been since we had kids, work is fulfilling, my parents are healthy after a few scores over the past year. I guess when I sit down and think about it, my life is pretty good, but close friendships is really the only thing that's lacking. Now that all the other "things" in my life (marriage, kids, work) is settled for the first time in a while, the lack of friendships is coming more to the forefront.  [/quote]

That’s fair. Were you able to retain close friendships from college or grad school? Are you living remotely from where you grew up?[/quote]

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