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Spontaneous meet ups and play dates? Or organised pre arranged?

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mag2305 · 04/10/2021 09:28

Just wondering if other people like doing spontaneous meet ups and play dates with children or do you only do things that are pre arranged in advance?
On a personal level, I like spontaneous things sometimes as I suffer with anxiety and depression and some days can be really bad. Planning things in advance can feel really overwhelming. So if I'm having a better day, I'm more inclined to message a friend about doing something on that day. However, I'm often hesitant about this as I feel like I might be stressing people out my suggesting last minute or sometimes I worry about getting rejected by friends (silly I know).
So would doing something spontaneous bother you? A lot of my friends have such an organised schedule of things planned. For a bit of context, I have a 3 year old, a 3 month old and moved house 3 weeks ago, also started part time work again, lol so things are a bit crazy my end!

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girlmom21 · 04/10/2021 09:33

I prefer pre-planned but my anxiety clearly works differently to yours and I hate no knowing/being able to prepare!

I do sometimes wish someone would just contact my spontaneously when I'm having a day where I need to get out, though.

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