Does your friends' relationship status match your own?

[marlena]

Has anyone else experienced the same thing?

 

Absolutely. With the exception of a few people, all my friends, or to be more precise, the people I spend more time with, are single like me. It's natural: Birds of a feather flock together.

 

But like OB said, my married friends are tried and true and back from the days when I was married. I wouldn't change them for the world. We have a common history and a relationship that has withstood the test of time. We don't spend as much time together because our lives are on a different path but the love and devotion is always there.

[Lauriebell82]

I could never stand it when my friends ditched me the minute they got in a relationship. My one friend is in the process of doing that now, she is always busy with him and I try to make plans with her and she's not around. It sucks because we could have a nice double date with the two of them. She cancels a lot too.

 

My boyfriend spends a lot of time with his friends. I never understood it, but now that my friend is "unavailable" I understand better why he doesn't want to ditch them. Most of his friends are married actually, so we go on double dates now.

 

I don't think it matters who you are with, if both sets of friends are committed to keeping in touch and hanging out then it can work. You can still be friends with those who are single, my friends always did with me. You can always scrounge up something you like to do together also, even if you have different interests.