It's nice to have so many friends. DH and I seem to be "the" couple that people like to be around but they all want to invite us to dinner, go out to eat, spend time..but we are, well, country folk who enjoy coming home.

Granted we love people, enjoy meeting such wonderful human beings especially since it's our business. But, we like to come home and crash...enjoy our own environment, do our own "thing". Plus, our business takes up lots of time. Our "town" is 45 minutes from here...and with gas prices we only travel enough to go to the market twice/week, then home. We do our errands while we are there.

DH is such a nice guy, he hates to decline any invite. But then, he complains to ME that he's "tired of socializing".

How can one "kindly decline" invites and not hurt feelings?