A little background: my husband has had two best friends since middle school. Both of those guys were best men in our wedding. Lately, the two of them have been spending a lot of time together, and my husband gets left out fairly often.
Yesterday, both of their wives announced pregnancies; both due within a couple weeks of each other. So they will be "pregnancy buddies!" I mostly just feel bad for my husband. The two dudes who will have babies around the same time will now have even less in common with my husband (one has a three year old already). We already only see them about twice a year; I think this will only decrease now.
It just makes me sad how people exclude us because we don't have kids. Like we don't already feel isolated enough. I get tired of chasing them and trying to set up a time to hang out. Eventually, I will give up.
That sucks, I notiee my husband and his friends are drifting apart too :(
ReplyDeleteI hear you... this is basically what happened to us with dh's cousin & family. They live two blocks away from us -- he was an usher at our wedding & their two little girls (now grown up) were like nieces to us, I adored them. I'm not sure if there were other reasons besides our childlessness. But after I lost my one & only pregnancy, we saw less & less of them -- and we got tired of always being the ones to call & propose a get-together (which was usually turned down). Today we see then at the same weddings & funerals we see everyone else at. Sad. :(
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