Feeling left out since most friends are single

I haven't experienced this, but most of my friends are in committed relationships. I'm sorry you have to deal with this - try talking to them about it.

Nope, Just the opposite, my single friends are always wanting to hang out, its the married ones I feel like I need to make an appointment with two weeks in advance lol

IMHO if they can't be happy for u since ur engaged and stopped talking to u because of it they weren't true friends cause friends dont abandon friends that way unless they are jealous of you and ur relationship. Hope all works out for you.

There are a few reasons that this may be happening. One is that they feel that you are moving on with your life and that soon you will not want to go out with them, so they are getting prepared. Another is that they may think that you might feel left out since you are off the market and there are certain activities you can't participate in anymore. Finally, there may be a little bot of jealousy that you found the person you want to spend the rest of your life with (admit to feeling a little of that myself when my friends started settling down).

Im in the same boat with Deshae, as soon as all of my friends got married they ditched their single friends to hang out with other married people. I have to really fight to spend time with my friends that are married :/ sometimes u just have to really put forth an effort and make people realize that just because ur married doesn't mean u cant still go out and have fun with everyone

Hmm one of my girls is like that. Shes IDK just weird about it.

I think it's like this with everything in life. I was the last single out of a group of very close friends. Now, all of them have children (babies) and I'm just getting married. All they want to do is baby things and I'm not ready for that yet. Everone is at a different stage in life, it just happens.

I'm kind of in the same boat. Most of my core group of friends are single - but now they are all in NYC and I'm back in the Midwest. Once you leave NY, they forget about you.

However, one of them is getting married this summer. Everyone is super excited for and planning to go to their wedding.

When it comes to mine, they're sort of like 'Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm busy."

I kind of feel like I don't have any friends left. And the ones I had, I can see now that they aren't really friends.

Yeah, I think it's the new life stage and people just don't want to deal with it. Even though I never talk about the wedding unless one of them asks me how it's going. I can tell a few of the girls are a little envious because they talk about how they want to plan a wedding. One of our friends got engaged over the weekend, and I have never seen the fallout that is going on in our group before. So now 2 people out of our group of maybe 10+ have a fiance and the rest are single men and women. The singles can't stop discussing her and talking bad about her and her fiance. The ugly side of our group has started to appear. Idk if they did this when I got engaged. But, I'm annoyed with the jealousy and gossip that's appearing.

@just add coffee, I feel like I don't have many left either. My BM have been around though fully. They have no problem hanging out, but the non WP don't seem as enthused.

A little bit, yeah. But for me, that road goes both ways. FH and I bought a home that's in our dream location, but inconvenient for hanging out with our friends constantly. We also work opposite schedules fairly often (I work weekdays 7-4; he works 12PM-8PM on a varying schedule). So frankly, most days I prefer just going home and doing things with FH. Our relationship is priority #1, and sometimes that means declining invites to hang out with friends. It's not that we aren't friends or that there's any hurt feelings, as we still pick up right where we left off when we do get to see each other.

It's just part of life, I think. As you get older, your group of friends shrinks and your number of acquaintances grows, because close friendships require mutual maintenance. You can only foster so many relationships.