Hi
I have name changed for this, as I feel a bit embarassed about this.
I have never had heaps of friends - I guess I am not an extrovert - but friends have always been important to me.
I have some good friends from university, that I keep in touch with, but they are not in the UK. I became a lone parent a couple of years ago, with a very young DD, and had been making a big effort to make more friends in London. But I feel it's always me making a big effort, and suggesting to people that we get together and do things, and I feel very hurt and rejected when they say they are too busy, etc. I can deal with it if it's someone I don't know that well. But it hurts when it's someone that I consider to be a friend. For example, today I contacted a friend about getting together, and she kept saying that yes, we should do something, but then kept saying how on that day she had to go to the gym, on another day something else, etc.
Anyway, it just really hurt me. I guess it's one of those things that if I was still with DH I would just brush off and not worry about, but because I am alone, it's hard not to take personally...
Sorry, none of this probably makes any sense, but I just wanted to know whether I am particularly paranoid, or whether other people feel like that sometimes...