Reply #39: Depends on what your social life was like before the kids. [View All]

I'm a lot different than some here because I'm a single parent. So it's not like I can leave my kid with daddy while I go out and yuk it up at the bar with my girlfriends. If I've taken the trouble to get a sitter, etc. to go out without my kid, I'd better have one fucking great time.

Mostly, though, I find I'm disappointed by a "social life" when I do get out. I remember that it's really not that much fun to be up at 3 in the morning in a bar fending off drunk dirtbags (though, now "I have a kid" usually causes them to scatter LOL). I never have as much fun as I feel I ought to be having.

Though, before the kid I wasn't the type to stay out at the bar/club until closing every night either.