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Meeting New People- Do You Have A Preference?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tanya M" data-source="post: 652480" data-attributes="member: 18516"><p>To meet new people you have to put yourself out there. Getting involved, volunteering, joining groups; church is a good one for these but if church is not your thing there are always local groups you can join. Pick things that you enjoy doing or want to learn about.</p><p> </p><p>You won't know about a person until you start to get to know them.</p><p> </p><p>There are different levels of friendship. I have some friends that my husband and I play cards with once a month (4 couples) while I like these people I do not go into a lot of detail about my son. Then there's my life group at church, they know everything about my son and all the troubles.</p><p> </p><p>In the beginning when getting to know people the question of "do you have children" always comes up. I always answer, yes I have one adult son. If the questions continue like, what does your son do, I will answer, I really don't know as we are estranged due to his lifestyle choices we do not have much contact. I let it evolve from there.</p><p> </p><p>For me I think it's important to have friends that you can trust with personal information, the inner circle friends. I also think it's important to have friends that you can do fun things with, like playing cards. I don't want my whole life to be about my son and the troubles we have had.</p><p> </p><p>One of my very dear friends has 2 easy child. Our friendship started out very casually but over time we have grown very close and she is very understanding and empathetic about my Difficult Child.</p><p> </p><p>I think in order to have a good, long lasting friendship it takes time to cultivate and nurture.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanya M, post: 652480, member: 18516"] To meet new people you have to put yourself out there. Getting involved, volunteering, joining groups; church is a good one for these but if church is not your thing there are always local groups you can join. Pick things that you enjoy doing or want to learn about. You won't know about a person until you start to get to know them. There are different levels of friendship. I have some friends that my husband and I play cards with once a month (4 couples) while I like these people I do not go into a lot of detail about my son. Then there's my life group at church, they know everything about my son and all the troubles. In the beginning when getting to know people the question of "do you have children" always comes up. I always answer, yes I have one adult son. If the questions continue like, what does your son do, I will answer, I really don't know as we are estranged due to his lifestyle choices we do not have much contact. I let it evolve from there. For me I think it's important to have friends that you can trust with personal information, the inner circle friends. I also think it's important to have friends that you can do fun things with, like playing cards. I don't want my whole life to be about my son and the troubles we have had. One of my very dear friends has 2 easy child. Our friendship started out very casually but over time we have grown very close and she is very understanding and empathetic about my Difficult Child. I think in order to have a good, long lasting friendship it takes time to cultivate and nurture. [/QUOTE]
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