Like you, I am in my 40s with two young kids. However, I live in a small country in which I can get to meet people in less than an hour, one hour tops.

So, for me, making friends is not difficult, but having the will and energy to sustain them is. My baseline is extroversion but I realise that after so much sensory overload from parenting, I just want to be by myself and recuperate lol. My highlight of the week is Friday afternoon because I get to spend a few precious hours of me time. So in that sense, my friendships have suffered