Do couples remain friends with singles? Does having children destroy childless friendships?

[OddBeMe]

Pretty sure this a universal truth.

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+1 y

So many having problem reading the q…lol

[Sweetsurprize]

No why would it? That would be cruel to do that. Just because you have children doesn't mean you get to OSTRACIZE your friend! Shows how much value you put in that relationship to begin with! How much you VALUED their friendship! If having children destroyed that! Poor friend!

[Juxtapose]

The smart move is to not have kids! Then you can focus on your family, your friends and yourself. If you still have energy after that? You can focus on your community.

Why waste so much time and so much effort to produce another human who likely won't even truly appreciate you and will blame you for their problems? And by the time you finish raising them your own life is pretty much done and you wasted valuable youth taking care of a child.

[OddBeMe]

True. I don’t appreciate my parents. Their such douches.

[Juxtapose]

I have a good mom so I'm not going to complain about her.

[Avicenna]

It didn't for me- the childless friends were happy to spend time around kids without having responsibility for them

[midnightmoon05]

our single friends often came over to play with our kids. On every weekend bases…some even on weeknights. We order dinner together and hang out.

on the other hand, I didn’t want to hand out with my friends who had kids because I didn’t care for little babies.
I have mature a bit since.

[Drumlin2001]

Having kids certainly effects friendships. You just don't have the same time you had before and same resources (I used to go to gigs, beer festivals, football, cricket with friends, rarely if ever do these days). You just have different priorities. These days my kids go to sleep by 8.30pm, so in theory I could go out after. But after being up at 6am, working 10 hours, dealing with bedtime, I'm usually physically and mentally drained.

[Ehjoh1]

I still have no idea what the fuck this is all about.

[sheikalana]

What are you exactly asking here?

[Kelly6]

what?