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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, sorry you are getting all of these extremely rude answers.  You just have to take advantage of the last few nice weeks and get out there!  Mask up and head to playgrounds and state and regional parks with your kids.  There are so many great things to do at this time of year!  On the playground, your kids will naturally find other playmates, and chat with those parents, and it will evolve into meeting them regularly.  Honestly, I know so many people at the playgrounds now, bc it is always the same people who are willing/desperate/interested in getting their kids outside - you will see the same people over and over.  It sounds like you need a new friend crew anyway, so just go for it![/quote]

You know what's rude? Taking a polite "no, I'm sorry, we're not comfortable with that yet" and running to DCUM with it. What's rude is taking someone's "no" response to any invitation and chewing on it like a dog with a bone.

It's fine to invite. It's also fine to decline, for ANY reason. Nobody owes you entertainment, social time, or affirmation of your boundaries and choices.

When one friend says "no," I either move on with my plans with just my nuclear family, or I invite someone else. I don't stew. I don't make up little back stories about how overly cautious they are, or why they will hang out with their local cousins outdoors, but not me. I move on with my day.

Seriously, honestly asking: how do you not just...move on with your day?[/quote]

Months of loneliness are terrible.  You can't just ... move on when there's no one to move on to.

You are attacking OP when you didn't bother to read her post. [/quote]

I suspect it's because OP's post, whether intended that way or now, came off as exasperated and accusatory, rather than lost and lonely. [/quote]

Yup. And also superior.[/quote]

She is superior.  All of her friends and these crazy posters are wrong. Meeting with friends is the right thing to do.[/quote]

Oh, they are. Just not with superior-acting overbearing types that we're all happy to have the excuse to finally drop.[/quote]

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