At the risk of sounding desperate...Wanted: Friends

Moving to Doha has put T and me in a rather precarious position. We have been in Doha for over half a year and still do not have many friends. Does that sound trivial to you? Or not a matter to be addressed, in a public forum like this one? If so, then I strongly disagree. Could you simply picture yourself and your better half, sitting in a busy restaurant, eating a meal? Pretty romantic isn’t it? But how about increasing the frequency to every weekend, month after month? Hmm...? I rest my case.
By now you must be drawing up conclusions, similar to what I had arrived at too. We are boring people! That’s it. That is what me and T thought and accepted for a while. However we began to think otherwise when we realised that we did have a couple of friends in UAE. So then what is it that went wrong? Me? Him?? Or both of us???
I have finally weeded out all the crazy, zany reasons and have arrived at one assumption, which combines the following –
i) We are married, and
ii) We don’t have children yet.
What? Seems outrageous to you? It isn’t. Think carefully. Single people do not really prefer hanging out with married people. Reasons are myriad and most often then not whimsical. Married people tend to advise single people to get married. Married couples are uninteresting compared to singles. Some married people have this ‘holier-than-thou attitude, even though they weren’t even close to H in Holy, when single. It also annoys single people that a couple always looks so happy and sport that million watt smile through out. So that one reason is justified.
Now the next problem according to me is that we don’t have children, yet. That alienates us from the ‘Bunch with broods’. Parents can bond over a lot. Nappy rashes, school complaints, PTAs, play dates and lots of other ‘Parent-y’ stuff. Parents have a lot of responsibilities and do not hang out late at weekends, or binge booze. So we lose out in that aspect as well.
Now, the next likely question will be? What happened to all the couples still stuck in between ‘Just married’ and ‘Proud parents’? Good question. However that partciluar kind seems scarce. Not a lot of people stall between Marriage and babies, or at least we haven’t been lucky enough to come across some. Hence, that leaves just the two of us. T and me. I sometimes feel this is how it was meant to be. This stage is where you spend most of your time with your partner and grow real close. It's the marvellous time to love, learn and grow till it’s time to graduate to the next level.