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  • Please don't flame, but I need to make some friends. I wohm, so other than the random playground meetings on weekends, not a lot of "socialization" opportunities. How does one go about making friends as an adult, beyond college? TIA

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    05.19.08, 09:45 AM [ Flag ]

    • seminars, lectures, school parties, yoga, do an activity with your dc on the weekends where there will be other parents of children your dc's age.

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      05.19.08, 09:48 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • op: we have been going to "ballet" classes and joined the various museums, but haven't clicked with anyone yet. It's hard - as adults we are all so set in our routines and consumed by our lives.

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        05.19.08, 09:50 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • where do you live? honestly, i've had problems making mommy friends. i meet them in classes, but they are sah's so i can't really hang out with them

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      05.19.08, 09:50 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • np - same here

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        05.19.08, 09:51 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • op: I live in Washington Heights, but travel all over along the 1/A/C trains.

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        05.19.08, 09:51 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • farmers market on the weekends up by inwwod hill park is a good place to at least see other people (meant in a good way) plus that yoga studio that's on isham and uses space from good shepard church has good classes. I never really met other moms at the playground at Inwood Hill Park, but I did meet some nice people at the dog run and down by the baseball fields. Oh yes, and the Cloisters and the park there has some good stuff on weekends, clean up the park, plant flowers, stroller walks, yoga at sunset types of things.

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          05.19.08, 09:58 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

          • op: since we moved further down from Inwood and the Cloisters last year, I miss all of the community activities they had! I need to get back in the swing of things up there!

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            05.19.08, 10:01 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

            • oh ok I see. maybe around columbia presb? they do have that art stroll each year, sorry, I don't know much below 181

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              05.19.08, 10:05 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

              • op: I used to love living above 181st, but everyone that I met came across a little to "crunchy" for my tastes.

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                05.19.08, 10:06 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • I would enroll in a class for something you like to do. I've made friends that way although not necessarily mom friends.

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      05.19.08, 09:52 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • op: I can't wait to do that! my dh works many weekends, so I tend to have dc's with me. Soon that will change though, I hope! I will be a woman again and not just a mom!

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        05.19.08, 09:55 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • OR: It really helped me. I took some evening classes at NYU then a Sunday one. Felt great to be out of my neighborhood, and meet new people for lunch/coffee. I think people try to hard to meet mommy friends sometimes.

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          05.19.08, 10:00 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

          • op: ita, but sometimes I feel like "mommy friends" are easier to deal with. My single friends want to meet at some trendy brunch spot and want me to bring the kids! I feel like I can't bridge those 2 worlds.

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            05.19.08, 10:04 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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