There was a recent thread on here that I didn't want to hijack about being no-one elses priority. Fortunately, I have a lovely dh and I know that I am high on his priority list but as friendships go, I don't think that I have particularly good ones.
I have had a friend or two who I have thought were brilliant friends, only it came to light that they weren't and I think I was being used in one way or another, then outlived their uses. I know people who I meet up for coffee and can talk to probably every month or so and who aren't part of my life other than these coffee chats.
There was another person who I thought was a friend but when I experienced a bereavement, she was no support at all and made no attempt to support me (she isn't a friend anymore).
There is yet another friend who constantly says she is going to meet up with me but other things become her priority and it doesn't happen for ages
Understandably, family life does get in the way and I probably don't have a huge amount of time to invest in friendships myself but it has dawned on me that other than my dh, I don't really have any other important people in my life (virtually no extended family).
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, only that this seems really sad and the older I get the more choosy I am about who I want for friends anyway (my self esteem has improved with time). Anyone else feel this way about their friendships - that they know people but don't have any solid friendships/flaky friends and are nobody else's priority when it comes to friendships?