My husband and I (31f) got legally married last summer, with the big celebration ahead this year. We knew from the beginning of our relationship that our friend groups were very different with most of his friends being married with kids for years now and my friends being mostly single (not just as in unmarried, they are without partners). Our five year age gap might be the reason. But it’s really only five years. So the two of us are fine with similar interests, enjoying each other’s company. However, whenever I am with his friends, especially the wives, I cannot seem to click with any of them. It’s not just the age gap. Sometimes I feel like the women were ‘very ready’ to get married (some to the point of ultimatum) and have kids and seem to heavily identify themselves as ‘wife’ and ‘mother’ – there’s nothing wrong with that, if that’s your priority in life. However, there’s more to a person, right? I don’t want to get to know you based on who you are to another person, if that makes sense. I still enjoy hangouts with my friends who are single. We talk about the new restaurants in town, work, travels, hobbies, books and of course some dating stuff. The friend’s wives are all about their houses, babies and weddings. I feel like a pick-me in high school all over again, because ‘I get along with the guys more’. I don’t know if I’m reading too much into it but at times I feel like some of the women even talk down or make fun of me for ‘knowing less how-to-wife stuff’, I guess. I had never been to a wedding when I was planning my own so I got some laughs, some ‘oh dear’s and ‘we have kids, you know ;)’ for sending the invites ‘too late’ at 5 months out. Or not knowing too much about babies that our baby shower gift was just one toy and I should know better what to get, when it’s not even my friend’s baby and I had never attended a shower while my husband has plenty of friends with babies so I thought my gift was fine. I was just a girl at 26 that randomly fell in love with a man, never thought of marriage and kids at that point, yet still saw herself with him for the rest of her life, nervous but excited to take on family planning at some point. Now I find myself in a different universe where I cannot relate to anyone it seems like. Has anyone else struggled with this?

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