Hi, I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas of how my DP could meet people, we have been here just over a year now, but have been coming and going & havnt had time for meeting people, ive recently met friends through studying, and now my DP is getting a little lonely, there are so many ways for mothers to meet and make friends but I just dont no whats out there for men. He works full time and is quite busy,but im ususally out of a night and his getting quite lonely,he would probably kill me if he found out I was doing this but i just thought any ideas could help
Thanks

Does he get on with his workmates? Do they organise social events? That could be a start (it's how I've made friends to begin with and most of DHs friends he met at work and they've stayed friends even when one of them has changed companies).
Also, does he have a hobby? My DH has made friends through his woodwork.

What about organised sports? Is he into soccer or indoor cricket. He could join a team and meet people that way. Also, my DH has meet other men through my parent group mums or swimming mums - their husbands.

Laura

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Hi,
Thanks for your ideas ladies,
He is quite a shy person and so this sometimes stops him meeting people.
He works at a lab as a dental technician with the same group of people and they are all probably about 20-30 yrs older then him, so yeah he doesnt really have alot of out of work interests in them. Have tried to organise joining sporting groups, but i couldnt find any around where we live.(Queanbeyan) Also just wondering the mums swimming groups mentioned, where do you find out more about them?
Thanks again.

In the ACT, when you have your first baby, you get a heap of things from a MACH nurse including an invitation to join a New Mothers Group. For the first 6 weeks you go every week to information session and get to know the other mums that have babies of similar ages. Once these info sessions finish, the mums can decide to stay together and meet up once a week/fortnight/month - whatever suits them, if they want to. Unfortunately, I don't think NSW does this. I have a friend from Queenbeyan who also hadn't heard of the Parent Groups.

As for the swimming - we starting taking DD to swimming lessons at Tuggeranong swimming pool when she was 6 months old. We met lots of people there, but two families in praticular we have become friends with. One of them is the lady form Queenbeyan I mentioned earlier. Our daughters get along really well, and we all have a great time when we meet up.

What are your DH's interests? My DH loves playing playstation - all the shoot em up games. He also likes playing those games - don't know what they're called, but they use a lot of little minatures and they move them around a board and try and win battles against each other. In my DH's case - its star wars toys! Is your DH interested in any of these?

Good luck,

Laura

The best way for him to meet people is for you to meet people......If you join a mother group then.....Host a BBQ including the Dads

That way he will not know you are intentionally trying to "Set him up"


Lauren

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There's a Family Get Together being organised (by me) on November 20. Husbands will be there too so this might be a good opportunity for your DH to meet some others.

Cheers,

Helen.
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Hi Helen,
Thanks heaps for the invite, we are going to try and make it, so il keep watching the GTG post and find out all the details, thanks again!