Well, school playground/school run friends. There's a mum I chat to every day and walk back with a couple of times a week and sometimes we go for a hot chocolate. We sometimes get together in the holidays with our dc and keep in touch. Other parents in the playground will have a good chat and always say a cheery hello even if I'm wearing my fuck off sign on my head that day. These mums have been to parties at my house and many venues-we've known each other for 4 years or so m, so they aren't smile as you pass type friends, they are people I engage with daily.
Ds and I have been at home for the past 2 weeks with covid. Not one person has messaged to see if there's anything we need or just to say hi. They know I'm a single parent with no help whatsoever and it's really brought home to me how I'm different and pretty much invisible. Covid has made me a bit wobbly emotionally so that might be contributing but it's shit. I feel bad for ds too that in two weeks none of his friends have said to their mum that he's not in school and can I message him to say hi. My ds does that for his friends and he's a popular lad in his class and the wider school so it's not like he's invisible like me.
This is why I don't like people. Cats and books are so much better.
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