I work two days a week and am a SAHM the other three days. A while ago, I felt increasingly as if a social life was passing me by. Everyone else was going for days out with friends, to the theatre, on shopping trips or even just to each others' houses for coffee. I realiised that to receive invitations you normally need to give some out so I invited one mum with similar age kids for lunch and three, one of whom I know well and the others a little, for coffee. Both afternoons seemed to go well. I felt it to be likely that I would get some invitations in return.
A few months later and nothing. I get FB updates from their statuses, saying how they had a lovely time at one another's houses or out shopping. Still not a single invite for me.
I suppose I could give it another go but is there any point? I don't really have anyone else to ask and I feel so disheartened. Plus, I have no wish to appear desperate! I joined a night class but there is no one my age there. I have no family left to spend time with. I need a little more company for ten or more hours a day than a two year old and Peppa Pig.