10 Ways Friendships Change When You’re The Only One Without Kids - Page 2
Everything must happen earlier
Push everything up by several hours. Everything. Want to have dinner with this friend? Those leisurely 8pm dinners are a thing of the past. Her kids go to bed by 9pm. She needs to/wants to be there for the tuck-in. Dinner must be at 5:30 now. Even if she has a babysitter or her partner is taking on parenting duties for the night, she has to get up ta 2:30 am to nurse her baby, or 6:30 am to get everyone ready for school. So she doesn’t want to meet up for drinks at 9pm. You’ll need to adjust the schedule. Perhaps, now, you meet her for her dinner at 5:30, while you just enjoy a drink, and then later meet other friends for an 8 pm dinner.