I think this was kinda common in the late 90s. I haven’t experienced it much since my mid-thirties. I remember, though, even in Sex & the City, the first season or two, you saw this — single women slowly being “released” from the pack. LOL. There was so much propaganda around the idea that your friends had to be married and have kids, too — partly because of this misguided notion that an unmarried, childless woman can’t understand what a married mother’s life is like, and partly because of the idea that if you want to be successful in marriage and motherhood, you had to surround yourself with people who were doing what you were doing.

Thankfully, the culture is shifting, but I still have had some friends slowly fade away after marriage and I never understood why and was too chicken to ask. LOL. Maybe it was just the natural trajectory that we were already on and the marriage was incidental. Or maybe they changed in their marriage enough so that they didn’t feel as invested in our friendship as they had before. I don’t know…

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