This is my theory on why she doesn’t have friends.
She met Steve when she was what, 18? With him being older I bet she was in awe of him, like overly keen and smitten. He had a proper job, a car and house etc. She would’ve wrapped herself up in him and stopped seeing her friends as much because she was now in this ‘grown up’ relationship that they could never understand.
Then they tried and ended up expecting a baby when she was 19. By which point all of her friends are moving on with their lives, are at university, travelling, starting careers... She’s just at a different stage to them in life so the gulf widens. She sees them less and less.
I don’t know about the rest of you but I only stay in touch with one or two friends from school. I don’t really see them. Facebook and the occasional text when a big life event happens.
My most meaningful friendships were the ones I made as an adult. People I spent years at university with and those that I met through work. In fact, my very best friend is someone I was introduced to via my brother when I was 23. He worked with her and kept saying how similar we were, that we should meet and it was like I’d found a sister. We were bridesmaids at each other’s wedding and are godparents to each other’s kids.
Anyway, what I’m saying is. She was thrust into this life at a very young age. Her peers left her behind sort of speak and she hasn’t entered the world of work or participated in any hobbies that would get her out there meeting people in person often enough to create lasting friendships.
