Anybody else an introverted, socially awkward mom who genuinely wants friends… but has absolutely no idea how to make them as an adult? 😅😂

Because hi. It’s me. 👋🏽

I’ve never really been the person with a big friend group—or even many super close friendships—and sometimes I wonder how people make it look so easy. I’m the type who can be really quiet at first, overthink whether I’m bothering someone, and probably need 3–5 business days to recover after socializing. 😂

But underneath the awkwardness, I really do want genuine friendships.

I want the kind where we can text each other random stuff, laugh about motherhood, vent when life is life-ing, grab food or coffee, have girls’ nights, or even just sit around doing absolutely nothing without it feeling weird.

I’m realizing that if I keep waiting for friendships to magically happen, I might be waiting forever… so this is me officially putting myself out there. 🥹

If you’re also a little introverted, awkward, shy, tired of surface-level friendships, or just looking for your people too… say hi. Maybe we can be awkward together until we’re not. 😂🩷

Bonus points if you also overthink the first text after exchanging numbers. 😭

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Hiiii!!!

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Hiiiii. I see gamer?!?! What do you play?

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girl why is this me! I could be your awkard social friend lol, is so hard for me to connect wifh other mom's because I over think everuthing😅 , are you in the LA area?

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I need a bestie who like phone calls

i’ve been so lonely. I love my husband and our talks but i miss having a girl best friend!!

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Advice

I love my fiance so so so much him and our son is my world but the thing is we have been arguing so much lately our son is 3 months old before I had our son we never argued we bickered but that was it

Some things have happened his brother owns a house in my town but he lives in PA so we rented from his twin brother when I was about 6 months pregnant we moved out bc our lease was up we were gonna renew it for another year

But his twin brother didn’t ever fix anything the hot water take is trash they need a new one so we got tired of it so after our lease was up we decided to move

We were gonna move to PA but to save up money to move to PA with out having to pay rent he moved in to his friends house and I moved into my moms house that is 3 blocks away from his friends house

Bc he can’t stand being at my moms house bc her house is packed with 5 dogs plus my sister lives here with her BF and her 2 kids

But so I was going on 7 months pregnant after I had the baby at about 8 and a half months pregnant he stayed at my moms house for about a week after I had the baby then went back to his friends house the agreement of him going back there after I had the baby was that he’d be at my moms house

Every day at 11am but he does not come over at 11am I’m lucky if he even comes over at all and when he does it’s usually like 1 or 2 pm and then he goes back to his friends house at night to sleep

I love my son but we fight a lot bc I bring up about how he is able to go hang out with his friend and brother and play a card game called magic and be able to watch tv when ever he wants with out interruptions so we have been arguing bc he is able to do what ever he wants but I have the baby every second of ever day am I a bad mom for feeling that way bc again l love my son more then life it’s self but I am jealous bc I wish I could and then sometimes I call him and ask if he can come over so I can shower and he says no

He says there are like 20 people that live there and they can’t watch him so you can shower and btw there are not 20 people there are 7 but also my mom has a big house as well it’s a 4 bedroom house my dad turn their basement into a whole living space so there is a living room a bedroom and a room so my sister and her bf and 4 year old son lives down there I’m in one of the big rooms

My niece my sisters daughter is in one room and my mom and dad are in the other

But anyways he say no to watching him so I can shower my mom and sister watch him sometimes so I can do stuff but sometimes they do say it’s not our responsibility and they are right it is not their responsibility

But am I a bad mom for being jealous

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Nachos

Always a win. And yes, I ate this all by myself lol

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A little dinner!

Tried the “viral” creamy cabbage, vegetarian steak, and roasted potatoes. It was SO good!

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How do I begin to start making friends again?

It’s so so crazy how my social life has flipped from when I announced I was pregnant. I am the only one that has a baby so far in the small circle I had. No one checks in, even when I try myself. I feel like my “friends” are just sick and tired of hearing about my son. My son is the best thing that ever happened to me. He is the absolute centre of my world and I don’t get up to anything anymore other than being a mum because everyone has just checked out and moved on. How the heck do I start anew? I have to really really hype myself up to even post this 🤣
Advice is more than welcome I need help lols💜

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