friendships

No. I'm just as close to my single friends as my 'in relationship' friends. It doesn't make a blind bit of difference to me.

WSS. Maybe it's coz we're old Kharvo?!

I wouldnt say its easier to be friends with singles or coupled up friends, just sometimes you want different things but then that can be any friend i suppose, if you have different interests, single or not.

What Tricks and KHarv said!

Maybe so Tricks. Old and wise.

WSS. I have friends in both groups. And those that have been in both groups at various times of their lives. Friends is friends is friends...

I do actually understand, partly, what the OP means. Obviously 'getting married/settling down young' means different things to different people, but I don't really know anybody in a long-term stable relationship let alone engaged or married. Sometimes it does feel like people think you are a completely different person and won't want to come out with them. Not my besties obviously, they know me better, but just people in my 'group' of friends who think that because I'm married I must have become a nun.

I don't care, my single friends provide me with gossip? which because I am boring and married, I do not have!

Yup - same here.

Yes and been friends with all friends is the same, my other best friend who was single for the first 4 years of our friendship i loved all the girls nights out, meals etc.. all whilst i was with my other half, i introduced her to her now other half who she's settled down with had a little girl.. So now we do alot of couple things and less girls time.. althou were getting out for one tonight.. bring on the vino.

I was more asking if people have been shunned or not invited to things by there single friends because they don't think to ask.. or think you would want to go.

Not do you now not do things with your single friends because your in relationships.. if that's how it came across.

No not really in fact I see more of my single friends than I do of the one who is now in a relationship! They are still in the new honeymoon phase so once he comes back down to earth a bit normal service should resume. ha ha.

No.

Definitely not.

totes agree with the harv and knees here!!

At the risk of being a sheep, WTS.

I agree with this- and apart from the very rare occassions when we go out with other couples and do coupley things I do and talk about the same things with all my friends. And I'm going on a girly hol to Barcelona for a week in the summer leaving oh to take care of himself.

I have always (and will probably continue to when married) gone on trips abroad and UK with my group of friends, which includes 2 girls, a gay couple, and 1 other gay guy. OH is fine with it, sometimes he comes along and sometimes not and he never has a problem if I want to go off on my own with mates. I find that I get on equally well with singles or couples, most of my life I have been the only single amongst couples and don't feel treated any differently now than I did then, and I certainly don't see my friends differently.

Another sheep here! It never occurs to me if my friends are single or not, they're just my friends!

I don't fall out with my friends just because they are single and I am not. Naturally there will be some differences in lifestyles and priorities due to this, but my friends are incredibley important to me as OH's are to him. It's essential that we spend time apart, and time seperately with our friends as well as meeting each others friends. With my ex, when we broke up I was very lonely because he hadn't allowed me to nurture my friendships. It took some time to build my friendships up again and never again will I allow them to dwindle just because of a partner.