That's great observation - after 10 years with children this stings extra hard. I also think that while having children I somehow lost the ability and will to m

That's great observation - after 10 years with children this stings extra hard. I also think that while having children I somehow lost the ability and will to make new friends. And this is especially tough because my old group shrank to only few, and most of them is too busy working to have time for their own children. Some claim that You can meet new friends through Your children (on playgrounds etc.) but I was never able to create any kind of bond with random people that had almost nothing in common with me, so it never worked for me (all relations created this way were boring and shallow and I prefer to read a book or watch TV than wasting time on shallow relationships that are clearly artifical).