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WanderingJuniper · 07-26-2019, 03:15 AM

How hard is it for you to meet up with friends whether as a couple or just the women? I’m curious what this looks like for others. I’m feeling frustrated but I don’t know if that is fair. A friend asked us to get together with her and her husband. This was early July. She gave us one date in mid August as an option because it was the only day open on their calendar. And even then she will have to drive her 15 yo to and from work that night. It’s the only day in August i have plans with other friends. She counters with the last Saturday in September. Is this normal? Are other parents lives so scheduled that it takes two months to get together with friends for dessert and coffee?

Flip side, Hubs and his buddy just scheduled a family weekend for our two families of five to spend the day on the lake and go to a NASCAR race the next day. It’s leaving me confused.

Both the families we were trying to connect with are families of 5 with teens.

I remember growing up my parents friends connecting in someway once a week or more. They all had kids too. It was an impromptu pool party, a Wednesday poker game. Friday night pizza and ping pong. Is my experience so different because of a culture change or was my experience just that odd growing up?

07-26-2019, 03:15 AM	#1
WanderingJuniper Rose Garden Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 10,819	The reality of getting together with friends How hard is it for you to meet up with friends whether as a couple or just the women? I’m curious what this looks like for others. I’m feeling frustrated but I don’t know if that is fair. A friend asked us to get together with her and her husband. This was early July. She gave us one date in mid August as an option because it was the only day open on their calendar. And even then she will have to drive her 15 yo to and from work that night. It’s the only day in August i have plans with other friends. She counters with the last Saturday in September. Is this normal? Are other parents lives so scheduled that it takes two months to get together with friends for dessert and coffee? Flip side, Hubs and his buddy just scheduled a family weekend for our two families of five to spend the day on the lake and go to a NASCAR race the next day. It’s leaving me confused. Both the families we were trying to connect with are families of 5 with teens. I remember growing up my parents friends connecting in someway once a week or more. They all had kids too. It was an impromptu pool party, a Wednesday poker game. Friday night pizza and ping pong. Is my experience so different because of a culture change or was my experience just that odd growing up?

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