Thank you, everyone, for your responses. I truly appreciate your feedback. I hear you, I really do. I AM insecure and I do think that meeting these people, especially Kerri, would help me tremendously. I wasn't invited on my AH's first trip back to see them, but that was only because their activities were mostly group meetings. I WAS invited on the second trip to go to a concert with them, but I couldn't go because I had a wedding to photograph. We are actually thinking of driving there today (July 4th), but I also learned last night that Kerri is out of town. Boo!
Anyway, I'm going to keep trusting my AH and I agree with you who said that these friendships may fizzle out after a while. I will just try to be patient and see what happens.