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AIBU?

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Realitea · 15/11/2016 13:32

Dd goes to school. I take her there, I pick her up. I get on with my own life in between. I dont see it as a place to build new friendships. Ive got my friends already. A couple of parents want to meet up all the time and I am saying no every week. I work and im busy and im exhausted all the time. I just dont know what to do now. Ive explained how busy I am but its falling on deaf ears. I am very friendly, im talkative and nice I just dont want to make new friends.
Aibu?

OP posts:
Wookiecookies · 17/11/2016 15:19

5to2, well said.

YuckYuckEwwww · 17/11/2016 15:28

Wookie you were first to "goad" about the fact that I network with the other parents so that my kids can have a social life! You said that your kids can manage their own social lives, I ask because I genuinely do not see how primary school kids can do this without being at significant risk if their parents aren't getting to know the homes they're going to?

Wookiecookies · 17/11/2016 15:30

Hmm ok.

YuckYuckEwwww · 17/11/2016 15:31

You can know enough about parents as acquaintances for DC's play dates and sleepovers, you don't need to be best mates first.

Course not, you don't need to be any more than friendly aquaintances but the OP says she doesn't ever want people staying during playdates, not even the first one or two? Who would leave their kids in a house they've never been in themselves? And thinks that parents are approaching because they want a new bestie and aren't just making her acquaintance/networking.

YuckYuckEwwww · 17/11/2016 15:33

I don't understand how you agree with 5to2 Wookie but you've slagged off my posts? I've effectively said exactly the same thing?

Wookiecookies · 17/11/2016 15:35

In the now infamous words of Elsa.

"Let it go."

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