When almost everyone around you in partnered, do you feel socially anxious and unwilling to socialise with others ?
I find socialising super-difficult and being around people who have partners when I don't makes me feel like an outcast. Especially with my 5 yo starting primary school next year and I'm probably the only parent who's single (apart from my ex who's my 5 yo's mum and who I think is also single) in the group of parents with kids in the kindy intake for next year.
I went to one of the readiness days recently and felt *very* lonely and isolated in a group of several hundred people and spent all the time sitting on my own reading stuff. My ex was there too and she treated me like I didn't exist and wouldn't engage/talk to me and at one point told me to f off quite loudly even though we were both there for our daughter. I'm also way older than almost all the other parents who are in their 30's and 40's mostly. My ex is 47 btw and I'm 54.
I went to one of the readiness days recently and felt *very* lonely and isolated in a group of several hundred people and spent all the time sitting on my own reading stuff. My ex was there too and she treated me like I didn't exist and wouldn't engage/talk to me and at one point told me to f off quite loudly even though we were both there for our daughter. I'm also way older than almost all the other parents who are in their 30's and 40's mostly. My ex is 47 btw and I'm 54.
