I've always found it hard making friends, I have a best friend from Year 7 but sadly she moved abroad so we don't see each other a lot. Me and dp have a couple we consider 'best friends' plus he has a best friend (male too) but we don't really have any other friends, and none locally even though dp went to school here.
I always felt a bit of an outcast in school, and had to really struggle to get close to people. I think it may stem from my mother, who never had any friends with children my age (she had me late in life) and I didn't make friends until I went to primary school, and then she didn't encourage it.
I'm really worried this will rub off onto ds. There's nothing I want more than to have his friends round regularly (obviously not atm as he is only a year old!) but the people we meet at baby groups etc just aren't that interested as they already have their own friendship groups locally.
I'd love a close friend or two locally where we can pop round each others houses and the kids can play together, but it's just not happening. We're planning on moving again soon (hopefully to stay put finally) and it's terrifying me at the thought of having to fight to meet people for ds's sake.
Sorry, I think this is mostly rhetorical, I'm just feeling a little sorry for the three of us at the moment.