Reply to Is it harder to be a SAHM in the suburbs?

Forum Index » Infants, Toddlers, & Preschoolers

Reply to "Is it harder to be a SAHM in the suburbs?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't expect people to want to hang out on the weekends. That's family time. Or time with established friends. When my first was little and I was a new SAHM I was happy to do stuff on weekdays but weekends, no way. That was when we hung out and did family stuff. I'm not and never have attended playgroup or done play dates on weekends. You need to plan that stuff for weekdays when they need stuff to do not on weekends when they already have plans. [/quote]

OP here.  I get what you are saying but what if I am trying to become friends with a mom who works full-time?  If you're saying no one wants to spend time with a new friend on the weekends then how do I invite full-time working moms to get together?  I meet a lot of them in a church weekend playgroup I'm in.[/quote]

IME you don't need to be courting the moms who work full time. They can't hang out with you like you want. They're working. You need the SAHMS if you're a SAHM because they share your schedule and need to entertain their kids. [/quote]

OP here. But don't full-time working moms want mom friends too?  My only mom friends happen to work full-time.  I find it far easier to hang out with them (they seem more proactive about wanting to get together).  Why do you say that they can't hang out the way that I want?  That is not true across the board.  Many working moms are interested in getting together on weekends, especially those who do not have local family and/or whose spouses have their own/hobbies that they do on weekends.  The full time working mom friends that I do have fit into both these categories.[/quote]

Ok op. You have a rebuttal for every single piece of advice you get. So just figure it out yourself then. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics