Socialising ideas for dh and me

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Help and advice please! We are at a bit of a loss re meeting new people. DH is a dentist and constantly telling me that as he sees people all week he doesn't want to spend any time making polite chit chat with new people. I, on the other hand, am a SAHM and am in desperate need of some more company other than the general stuff that goes on at the school gate. DH did finally concede that as new people don't necessarily need to be your best friend then maybe it was time we did something about it. However, I'm completely at a loss as to where to start. Can anybody offer help and suggestions?

Any hobbies you want to take up or re-start?

Dancing?

Can you meet more people during the day?

Or how about a salsa dancing class in the evening together?

Dance classes? Pub quiz team? Can you do any PTA stuff? Gym? Cookery classes?

snap Laurie

Could be tricky but what about the parents of your dcs' friends?
Are there any couples/single parents that you get on well with?

Or arranging nights out with old friends you have lost touch with.

One more thing:
you don't have to do everything together.

If he prefers to read a book at home
go out by yourself!

some kind of sport, anything he might like

Where do you live? Roughly?

Hi Swedes, in Northeast Scotland. Thing is Daddy J, we do do stuff seperately but absolutely nothing together. It would be nice if we could do something together other than sit in front of the TV.

Do you have an indoor tennis centre?
Golf?

Most of all I would recommend deciding to be more sociable in general. If you like someone, invite her and her partner/husband for lunch or supper at your house.

do an evening course together? Learn a language or someting like that?

sometHing in case you were wondering if that was lesson 1 of learn a new language