I have a 10 year old son and am divorced from his dad.
My custody and work schedule make it very hard for DS to have play dates at our house.
I don't have him at weekends and after school activities and my own work, rule out weekdays.
He's new to the school and used to get invited to a lot of play dates. I recently find out his circle of friends are having play dates without him, which I suspect may be because I can't reciprocate on the play dates, because he is with his dad (who is not set up to arrange such things). His dad certainly isn't going to give me more time with him, and even if he did, I tend to work at the weekends.
I only just found out that all the kids in that group had a play date at one of the houses on Saturday and DS wasn't invited.
Granted it might be for a different reason but I suspect not.
I'm absolutely devastated about this. I cried myself to sleep over it last night.
I feel like I've let him down so much and he's such a good kid and has always had such great friends over the years, so this is really breaking my heart.
I do understand that it's annoying if you're always the one hosting the play dates, but I feel so stuck about how to resolve it.