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| re: Couples will drop singles as friends | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 08:27 pm EST 12/31/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 08:21 pm EST 12/31/21 | |
| In reply to: Couples will drop singles as friends - FinalPerformance 07:45 pm EST 12/31/21 | |
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| Women who marry might retain some their single girl friends, but I think the married one will seldom want to get together with the singleton when she's out with her own husband, unless the single one has a date. Lots of husbands have cheated with good friends of their wives over the years. Lots of film noirs on this subject, to say nothing of melodramas. It's unfortunately easier to drop the sing friend and concentrate on making friends with other couples and later, couples who are having babies. Will & Grace type relations have dropped the "Will" when he Grace gets married too --- and other permutations, gay and straight. At least one in the couple doesn't want possible competition, and they don't want straying attention of their partner. |
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| re: Couples will drop singles as friends | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 12:06 am EST 01/02/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Couples will drop singles as friends - PlayWiz 08:21 pm EST 12/31/21 | |
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| This seems to be a very very antiquated view of things, and the references you're using to support it make that clear. This is of course true for some friendships, but it is by no means a rule. As I wrote in my reply to the original post claiming this, this is very much not my experience. Yes coupled friends often want/need coupled friends. But they like their single friends too. AND worth noting that single friends I think often phase out married friends, or let it fade, because they have way less in common after the friends are married more than a year or two, and especially if the couple has kids... they are looking to spend their free time with other single people, doing things single people can do (like out meeting other single people or couples who like being out). Just the need to pay for a babysitter to leave the house often means the single person only gets to hang out with the couple if they go to their home and spend time with the kid too or wait till they're asleep -- which is great but a limited experience sometimes. So it's not just the married couple "dropping" the single friend. But I see more justification for Bobby being in demand by the couples than not. |
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