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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Short answer: lol, no.

Longer answer: I work full time in an exec role. My “social life” is waving at neighbors on walks, making pleasant small talk on bleachers, and occasionally locking eyes with another mom at a tournament like we should do dinner sometime… which we absolutely will not.

Friends without kids? Maybe a few times a year. And that’s if calendars align, children don’t have games, no one is sick, and Mercury isn’t in retrograde. “Saturday night plans” usually mean sweatpants, something half-watched on TV, and falling asleep mid-sentence.

I’m 100% mom during the week and most weekends. This season is just… this. I’m not complaining about it (I love my life, including my friends!). But, we don’t have any nearby family, and we work so hard that we try to be 100% in on our kids and family outside of work. My hypothesis is that anyone claiming weekly girls’ nights either has a live-in village, unlimited childcare, or is lying for the internet.[/quote]

Not sure you’re actually interested in an answer but [b]what people do is trade off with their spouses.  [/b]Most adults are capable of watching children alone.  Socializing with friends does not mean a person is not 100 percent in on kids and family.  [/quote]

+1 My kids are older now but when they were little, starting when youngest was a year old, I've always gone out to a church choir rehearsal one night a week. Not exactly "hang out with friends" but a lot of the group are friends. I could do this because DH was home with the kids. He never opted to have a similar weekly commitment but I'd have been fine with him doing that. [/quote]

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