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I have few friends 3 and a running group. I am married.
My wife and I usually see each other once a week and most of the time passing ships. With friends usually have to turn down plans because of work schedule. Work variable shifts so could do 1 day, 2 eves, and 2 nights a week plus one weekend in that week as well.
I don't know feel bummed friends kept asking me to do stuff with them last few days but mainly been working and not working just resting.
I feel stressed when I have too much of a social life. I enjoy catching up with friends and family, but I also value my alone time and feel resentful when people try to encroach on it.
Sometimes. Other times, life is hectic enough, and factoring in social time starts to feel like an unwanted obligation and an unwelcome pressure to fit one more thing in.
I really value a good balance of solitude and time just with my family, as well, so I guard that time pretty jealously. I definitely put family time and "me" time much higher on the personal totem pole than friend time.
Your social life sounds pretty full to me. 3 friends is a lot, if they're quality friends. As you get older, you usually shed the acquaintances and party group. If you're left with 3 good friends, that's a real blessing.
And you have a running group you participate in. I wonder if you are just not happy in your married life. Maybe you could work on that situation.
I have few friends 3 and a running group. I am married.
My wife and I usually see each other once a week and most of the time passing ships. With friends usually have to turn down plans because of work schedule. Work variable shifts so could do 1 day, 2 eves, and 2 nights a week plus one weekend in that week as well.
I don't know feel bummed friends kept asking me to do stuff with them last few days but mainly been working and not working just resting.
No doubt you ask yourself, "What's it all about". We should obviously work to live and not vice versa. When the reverse takes over serious questions are required to be asked of oneself.
We owe it to ourselves to have the best life possible and working most waking hours or being too fatigued to on time off to live, strikes me as an exceptionally adverse way to continue long term.
Not healthy for a marriage nor social relationships. I hope you are able to arrive at an alternative and 'resume' living again.
Just a blah week and lack of sleep isn't helping. Just feeling guilty turning down friends invites to hang out. Lately just like to come home and relax. Then sometimes of wifey is gone relax with her. We both work in healthcare field. With her job closer seems easier for the wife to connect with her colleagues off work.
I feel stressed when I have too much of a social life. I enjoy catching up with friends and family, but I also value my alone time and feel resentful when people try to encroach on it.
Ditto
There are seniors in my complex that want to get together nearly every day and in some cases even the evenings. For me, that's way overdone. I participate when and if it's comfortable.
I meet 2 friends at noon and evening meals in the dining room. That's about all I want.
However some evenings I get so bored and lonely that I'd like to go out and do something but I can't go alone so I just get on the computer and play games and visit C-D.
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