Dating Sites

I have decided that there needs to be friendship dating site for military spouses or any spouse who moves around a lot. No to cheat on your spouse or anything like that. To find friends.....probably the hardest part of every single move.

Finding new friends gets harder and harder with every move and every passing year. As we get older, it is harder to find people we relate to; a person that fit in not only your life but in your families lives and that will be there for you as much as you will be there for them.

When I was younger, making friends was easy. I made friends with the people I was stationed with. We had similar interests, we had all be through the same trails that the Navy threw at us and typically, being so far from family, we became family for each other.

Once I got married and became a mother, 98% of my friends were either moms, military wives or both. I met people typically because of my children or because of my status as a milwife. When we moved overseas, my closest friends were the people who I met through other mil. spouses, were people I worked with on the PTA or were people I lived close to. Each one of them, I met through some sort of activity and we slowly became friends outside of that activity.

Now, we are here. In a new place, new home, and no new friends. With the kids being homeschooled this year, there will be no school activities to meet new people at. Little man is playing soccer but none of the moms hang out at practice. The princess starts gymnastics and scouts within the week so we will have to see how the mom situation works with that. I just honestly wish there was an easier way.

Like speed dating but instead, it could be called speed friending. Or instead of Match.com, someone could develop Friend.com. If their "fool-proof" method can help couples find each other, why couldn't they help a lonely, 30-something woman find a friend or two in the new place she now lives!! Or even a friends personal column. My ad would read: WANTED, drama-free, not-crazy female who enjoys coffee, wine, chocolate, shopping and movies. Must be able to hold a conversation, laugh at my "awesome" jokes, deal with my off-key singing at random times, understand my insane OCD, but most of all, just be there so the loneliness would stop feeling so heavy.

Oh well, one can dream, I guess? One day.....one day, life will feel our brand of normal again. I just wish that day would hurry up and get here!!!