▲ 14 ▼ Why Can’t Our Friendship Survive Your Baby? (www.thecut.com) submitted 2 years ago by Servais@dormi.zone to c/dads@feddit.uk 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] FMT99@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) For my friends and I (not bar people), hangouts still changed when they had kids because now the choice is hang out at my place or hang out at theirs....with the kids. I have to "compete" for my friends' attention until the youngins go to bed and then we have to be quieter as to not wake them up. It's fine, but it's an undeniable downgrade. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yea, when I hang out with my friends that have kids it's always just a constant stream of interruptions where they have to step away from whatever it is we're doing and go deal with one of the children. Which I understand, kids take priority, but it's definitely worse than before when we could just focus on having a good time. There's also the fact that a lot of time they'll invite me over and I don't go because I'm already stressed from work and I don't have it in me to deal with their children on top of it. If the kids weren't there I'd have no problem going over. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Yep...and then sometimes there's tension when the kids have a meltdown and they ask their wives to help take care of it. If I had a nickel for every time I sat on the couch by mysf for half an hour waiting for them to chill out... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children) For my friends and I (not bar people), hangouts still changed when they had kids because now the choice is hang out at my place or hang out at theirs....with the kids. I have to "compete" for my friends' attention until the youngins go to bed and then we have to be quieter as to not wake them up. It's fine, but it's an undeniable downgrade. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yea, when I hang out with my friends that have kids it's always just a constant stream of interruptions where they have to step away from whatever it is we're doing and go deal with one of the children. Which I understand, kids take priority, but it's definitely worse than before when we could just focus on having a good time. There's also the fact that a lot of time they'll invite me over and I don't go because I'm already stressed from work and I don't have it in me to deal with their children on top of it. If the kids weren't there I'd have no problem going over. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Yep...and then sometimes there's tension when the kids have a meltdown and they ask their wives to help take care of it. If I had a nickel for every time I sat on the couch by mysf for half an hour waiting for them to chill out... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yea, when I hang out with my friends that have kids it's always just a constant stream of interruptions where they have to step away from whatever it is we're doing and go deal with one of the children. Which I understand, kids take priority, but it's definitely worse than before when we could just focus on having a good time. There's also the fact that a lot of time they'll invite me over and I don't go because I'm already stressed from work and I don't have it in me to deal with their children on top of it. If the kids weren't there I'd have no problem going over. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Yep...and then sometimes there's tension when the kids have a meltdown and they ask their wives to help take care of it. If I had a nickel for every time I sat on the couch by mysf for half an hour waiting for them to chill out... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago Yep...and then sometimes there's tension when the kids have a meltdown and they ask their wives to help take care of it. If I had a nickel for every time I sat on the couch by mysf for half an hour waiting for them to chill out... permalink fedilink source parent