So I find myself a mother of a 5-year-old little girl. I
have no friends with kids. Well…let me say I have no real friends with kids that live close. I have one best friend who
has two children close to my daughter’s age but she is over an hour away. Then
I know a couple of people who have kids close to my daughter’s age but I don’t know
that I consider them friends or not and I don’t know how to say “let’s have a
play date,” because I am so busy and so are they.
As a mom who works full time with a husband who works a lot
too it is really hard to find time for friends. My daughter made friends in
dance and preschool that she still sees at her school or on her bus and I know
their parents, it’s just hard to connect. My hairdresser has kids that go to my
daughter’s school but it’s really hard to find time to ask her to hang out too.
Then there are those who she has just met these past few months in kindergarten
and I don’t know their parents because I work full time and don’t get time to
go to school things much.
Don’t get me wrong, I want mommy friends, I would really
love to have them actually. But where do you find the time to connect? When I
am off I want to be with my family. I suppose when my daughter gets older, she
will do more and then I can superficially connect with these moms, but what
about friends?
Even my best friend, it is so hard to talk to her because
one of us will text and then the other will take forever to respond because we
are doing something.
I just want to have mommy friends, friends who I can
complain about my kid to and not feel like an awful person. Friends who I can
complain about my husband to and not feel like a bad wife. Friends who are
going through the same things at the same times as me.
I connect with people at work but they usually don’t have
kids my daughter’s age, most have kids that are adults and they many times do
not understand parenting in this day and age. I don’t care what you say,
parenting is different now than it was even when I was a kid!
I just want a mommy friend. Is this too much to ask for?
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