Why some friendships end after kids come into the picture

Non-parents have no clue. Example: a young friend said Let's go to the fair! OK, it'll take some assistance to watch the stroller while changing the baby, some time in the shade to feed her. Get the baby there, in the stroller. Five minutes later, the friend sees other friends, not encumbered, and See you! and she's off. Leaving me to pack up the baby and go back home.

I'm sorry to hear that but they don't sound like much of a friend.

Same thing when your parents retire, they suddenly forget that anyone else still has actual responsibilities that take up about 99% of their time. It's as sad as it is hilarious.

One time with we went to brunch with our small children. We were meeting 4-5 folks without kids.

We arrived at the brunch place 5 min late, thinking we'd done a pretty good job. One other friend arrived around the same time, but everyone else was an hour late. Because of the kids, we ended up not eating with them at all.

It's rude to your friends to be late when you don't have kids, but when you have small kids on a schedule, it's impossible to adjust.

Fundamentally the lack of empathy demonstrated by your friends should make it evident that those determined to be child free are really just selfish. Why would you even want to spend time with people with those personality traits? My best friends younger brother was the first to get married and have kids. We only do things that the little dude can come along for, I can't even imagine forcing a decision that leaves them behind.

I do not have children, but i find this mentality to be pretty insane. do you believe climate change is going to make the world uninhabitable or something?

How is it insane, and what does it have to do with climate change?

1. "Non-parents have no clue" is the kind of rhetoric that pushes people away from you. People generally don't like when they're talked down to. 2. You have bad friends, and generalizing it to "non-parents" will encumber future friend-making.

You are a parent? Or just blowing smoke. That was an anecdote in support of a well-founded generalization, born of twenty years of child raising.

Thanks for lecturing me on my friends and speaking style, neither of which you have the tiniest knowledge of.

This kind of know-it-all content-free post is something AI should be able to filter in future. I look forward to it.

Just young, and with little self-discipline.

No wonder your friends avoid you. Blame it on your kid if you want, but your attitude is garbage. Bye.