Been there, done that, part of the club. Know the feeling too well.
LOL - the family that sprays (pheromones) together, stays together. So - the A314 and MX235 dosed kids are all between 9 and 14? Interesting -
How is that going? In particular the A314 - how strong a dose do you think it is? What are you mixing it into? Do you mind saying how old the young men are who are wearing it?
I can only imagine with teens and tweens.
Bella and I are trying to set you up with one of the guys in my martial arts class - the one with the mohawk and lots of ink. But he is mid-20s, single, employed, looking for a female friend, and very fit. Very.
The other thing that couples do is get caught in what I call the “parent trap”. When the kids are young they take up a lot of time. It is often hard to maintain social adult friendships because of kids bedtimes, meal schedules, school-work, activities, etc..
But once they start getting older then the older ones can babysit the younger ones, they have friends and/or activities like “bowling night” where they are out of the house and parents actually have time for an adult social life. Not to mention “mommy and daddy time” where you don’t have to worry about location or noise or locking a door 'cause they are gone.
(Of course you have to be careful with that. One weekend evening while I was still in middle school we dropped off one of my female friends at her house after a movie or something. When I saw her at school on Monday she said she walked in, saw both of her parents sitting on the couch, went around to say goodnight - and saw neither one had anything on below the waist.
:o She was still a little
at school on Monday.
)
One problem that arises is when you do not have any outside friends. Then you can feel trapped or like you do not have any friends or anyone to talk to. Likewise if you don’t have any outside friends to talk to about life at home. Becomes a bad circle - no friends and the unhappiness bleeds over into the home. Then you are unhappy at home and have no one to talk to about it. Then you are unhappy because you feel alone and have no friends.
Exactly - that is how I end up talking to a lot of different people - search for the commonalities to create conversation and connection. Crack a joke. Ask them questions and get them talking about something they really like or do that is interesting.