Mummyfriend?

[Lillegs2020]

I took my son to a soft play recently with my best friend and her daughter. While we were there, we met another mum who was really nice and I just found easy to talk to. Our children were playing together on and off. She was saying how she has no mum friends, and it gets quite lonely sometimes. We had started our session before her one so we left before them but i got her name and said it was nice to meet you and we left. I don't usually find it easy to talk to people and gave up on an idea of any other mum friends so I'm feeling very regretful now that I didn't ask for her number or anything as it would have been nice to meet up again. I suppose I'm not really asking anything and just venting at the fact I really regret not asking, who knows maybe we will bump into each other again??

I had the same when my DD was a baby, I met the same woman a couple of times and regretted not swapping numbers as I thought we got on well! Frustrating!

In my area you see all the same mums eventually, at another activity/ the park/ just pushing buggies.

If you do spot her, I’m sure she’d love it if you said hello and swapped numbers then.!

I think these things have to happen and have some regrets, so that you are armed and ready the next time it does. You will meet her again or you will meet someone else and you will know to swap numbers the next time.
I had a similar thing when I lived in another country. I was always on the look out for English speaking friends, the first few times, I wasn't brave enough to get numbers, but after a while I was. Still in touch with a couple of them 20 years later, although I left said country 15 years ago.