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That's happening to me now & my little boy is 2. I still saw my friends regularly when he was a baby, but since he turned 2, they don't seem to want to know me anymore & I can go up to 4 months without seeing any of my friends.
That’s true. It just really sucks
@Rachel yea it’s all fun and games when they’re cute tiny babies then all of a sudden they disappear
I’ve got closer with one of my husbands friends wives as her youngest is 6 months older than our grandson. Most of my friends have kids now so I can go to them for advice/ a chat. My friends who don’t have kids are ok as we’re mainly all the same age. My best friend is 11 years younger than me and we talk nearly every day. She adores my grandson and she is aunty Darcy to him. Being in my mid 30s now I don’t really go out drinking as 1 I can’t drink anymore due to my health and 2 I spent most of my 20s bouncing about in clubs and pubs so now I’m like “been there done that”
That’s awesome you have friendships. Half of mine have kids and we still don’t talk.
It's true. I just lost my best friend of 15 years. It hurts.
@Mutago 🤗 I’m sorry to hear that.
i lost all my friends as soon as i was pregnant. & than i lost more friends during postpartum even the ppl who i thought would be here forever for me its really sad tbh
@Mutago 🤗 me too! Sorry to hear that!
@Amanda, I'm sorry , it hurts like losing a sister. it happened out of nowhere. She just stopped replying to my messages a month ago.
I haven’t experienced this.
@honey that’s so sad. And during postpartum smh. I’m sorry
It really makes you think and feel that they were never really your friend. I even started to think back when we would all hang out and there was always this energy smh
I was this friend. Because I didn't relate as I didn't have kids. Now that I have a kid, I've reached out and apologized. (It's been a year + since we texted or met up) Turns out they still want to be friends. It's not like it used to be, and we're both busy with various aged kids, but we check in once in a while now (1-3 months)
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I really think we need to stop normalizing not seeing our friends for months on end because "life is busy." I just think it is a major cop-out & an excuse for people to be bad friends.
Absolutely feel this. I had a separate "friends only" babyshower, so no one would have to drive all the way out to my family, and not a single person that I invited showed up. Out of 30 invites.
100% true. It’s not even just friends but family as well. Tell me how I went from spending every day with someone before my son was born to I can’t get a text back after he’s born. Also my brothers wife(who I used to be close with) hasn’t even acknowledged my babies birth(he’s 3 months)
I think it’s definitely true! I’m still in my first trimester and I’ve noticed only a small few of my friends actually still check in with me as I can’t go out partying and obviously have different priorities now. The way I see it is they were never good friends in the first place