Newly single with no single friends

[lilacsky89]

I'm 30 and am newly single with one child, my partner was having an affair.

Not only am I feeling so lonely navigating being a single mum which is something I never thought I would be, all of my friends either have young babies or are pregnant and in relationships. I have nobody to go out and try to enjoy life with when I don't have my son (and no I don't mean going out on the pull, I mean just having people who are available to go for dinner or drinks with me).

I'm self employed so I don't even have colleagues. I've never felt so lost and alone in my life

Can't your friends come out without their partner? I'm much older than you but was widowed 15 years ago. I was, until last year when a friend separated, the only single person I knew. While it did affect my social life (people don't ask single people to couple dinner parties or other couply events), I had plenty of friends happy to go out without their partners.

I feel you, I don't have any single friends. My friends with children all have young children they don't want to go out and leave and my childless friends are busy with their partners doing couple things on the weekends as they work all week. I work but have no work friends.

I have joined my younger sister (6 years younger) on nights out with her friends but I feel odd beeing much older and this weekend I'm going out for some drinks with my dad as my mums on holiday so I'm saving him from beeing sat in on his own haha.

My kids dad has them one night in the week and I end up going to my older sisters house and spending time with my niece or doing a food shop slowly just so I'm not sat in on my own

Well the good thing is you get time to yourself so you could use that time to make new friends or join groups/ hobbies to make friends