How many families of friends do you have?

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With the lockdown easing, my friends have been talking about plans to meet up with people. They all seem to have lots of different families of friends to meet up with!

We, on the other hand, have 2 families that we are close friends with, then 3 sisters with DC between us. Most of those live quite far away, so we won't be able to meet them for a while anyway. There is a large group of about 10-12 families that we are on the edge of - have started to be invited to group camping with them & large parties - but we are definitely not part of the main group. I also have lots of mum friends who I meet up with along with our DC, so DC have plenty of non-school friends through me. DH seems to be becoming less sociable as he gets older!

I just wondered if this is typical or if we are different to the norm? I'm always aware of trying to make sure DS2 in particular gets lots of interaction, as he has suspected ASC & benefits from the interaction with peers. For info, Dses are 11, 9 & 6.

We have around 12 families close by that we regularly socialise / holiday with (prior to this). Mixture of different groups - school / old baby group / community group friends (i.e met since having our DDs), neighbours, old friends of mine and DH has a group of school friends he's very close to.
We often get together as a big group with those (5 families) and some of their wives have become really close friends of mine.

Further afield we've got old uni friends & their families from both of us, old band mates of DH's that I got to know the partners through all the gigs, 3 couples from DH's school group (abroad) & a few old work colleagues of mine that we'll catch up with whenever the opportunity presents.

We moved back to our hometown so also have parents, siblings, cousins, aunts / uncles and their families that we fortunately get on well enough to hang out with as well (with varying frequency).

My DH is really easy going and rarely meets people he doesn't like, and I'm pretty sociable so we've just accumulated each other's friends over the years. Been nice to have a few quiet weekends with just the 4 of us over the last couple of months

A few. Can go to a few parties and bbqs etc.

Plus I have my own friends.

Can't believe so many posters have none!

None, i have a couple of friends who dc are friends with theirs and dh has a couple of friends (bit antisocial generally) but no whole families we would meet

We've got a tight knit group of 7 families so we will see them very soon, DH has no family so essentially they were his "brothers" and over the years we've all become incredibly good friends.

Then we have probably another 7 or 8 families that we know through DD'S nursery and activities.

Then we've got my family so lots of aunts, uncles and cousins to catch up with.

We will be busy

One family where my daughter has a friend and my son can make do with their sons for an afternoon. Basically I have my friends and my kids have theirs and they do not generally overlap much - one or two exceptions but not for both my kids.

None. Family get togethers have never been our thing, even when the DC were small. My idea of hell would be a holiday with another family, in fact even a day out would be too much. I'm looking forward to seeing relatives and my own friends though.

The easing of lockdown means, um, that we still won't be seeing anyone. I'm just grateful they stopped the idea of social bubbles as that would have felt even more pathetic

It's the same for me @CMOTDibbler, life is going to change

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