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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve been in OP’s boat and I’ve also been on the other side. Both are hard.

We are always looking for families from our kid’s classes who would be interested in becoming better friends, assuming the kid’s hit it off. It never really works out. We do play dates and such but have never found the kind of family friends you are talking about. Partly it’s that we have an only and other people have other kids and our family doesn’t meet their family’s needs (who will big brother play with if the girls are too much younger?). But it’s also that other families always seem to have much more rigid schedules and there’s no room for anything but occasional play dates.

On the other hand, I know we sometimes seem too busy for closer friendships because we have a lot of friends, mostly with kids, and we have lots and lots of get togethers with them. For a family new to DC, this probably sounds like “we already have friends, no thanks.” But these are entirely friends from before having kids, their kids are different ages than ours, and while we love them, we are absolutely still in the market for more friends. But yes, we might not be able to hang out THIS weekend because it’s my best friend’s 40th and of course we can’t miss.[/quote]

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