I've posted on here for traffic. Not had much luck with gingerbread or lone parent section mn. Here goes...
Hi all
I am looking to make new friends - single or non single. I am classed as a lone parent tho I have started dating someone. We don't live together and only really see each other on weekends.
I work 4 days p/w, and my out-of-work time centers around my son, housework, cleaning, cooking, washing, food shopping etc. you get the gist.
To sum it all up.... I'm am fed up at staring at 4 walls night after night after night. At weekends I catch up on chores and take DS out. My social life has taken a nose dive probably due to me being mostly unavailable. A lot of my mum friends are sahm and I think because of my work/home life balance I don't really see them. And at night they are all home with their families.
So I feel completely cut off from the outside world bar working and seeing my partner on the weekends.
I feel like I need a new hobby which is sociable and a way of making friends. I have family support. What I would really like is an activity to look forward to, perhaps one evening per week which is something that is solely for me (gym, an evening class, dance class, anything).
I am aware this comes across as selfish but seriously, my head is done in with the same old routine day in day out. When evenings fall I find I am just sat indoors, messing about on the Internet and thinking to myself there is a whole world out there which is passing me by. I would love to have a social activity to look forward to during the week - a way of meeting like-minded people.
Would it be rude of me to ask how others get their 'me time' fix? I am craving social interaction that doesn't involve a)being at work and b)talking to strangers via a computer/phone screen.
Thanks all in advance