I’m gonna try to keep it short and sweet, but I just wanted to ask for advice on how to make new friends as a married woman (22f). Ever since getting married or being in a relationship in general, a lot of my single friends have kind of distanced themselves from me or make excuses not to hang out, but go hang out with other people. Even when I do try to initiate plans, it never really falls through unless I’m pushing it which I don’t wanna do, because I never wanna force anyone to hang out with me. It’s honestly gotten into a point where even my sister-in-law’s don’t talk to me that much, yet, I see them hanging out with literally everybody. I know they don’t have a problem with me so I’m just not sure what it is.
Even before I got married, I had former friends who purposely stopped talking to me because of the fact that I was in a relationship, and no, I never try to ignore my friends, and I never push them off just because of my relationship . They just stopped including me in things and whenever I would ask why I wasn’t invited, they would say it was a last-minute decision.
It really has affected my confidence and honestly, I think I’ve developed social anxiety because of it. It almost feels like when I tell people that I’m married, they see me completely differently and distance themselves from me.
So what should I do? please any advice would be appreciated 😔