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Why some friendships end after kids come into the picture

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35 points mooreds | 3 comments | 18 May 25 12:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.633s | source
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JoeAltmaier ◴[18 May 25 13:45 UTC] No.44021386[source]▶
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.
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1. y-curious ◴[18 May 25 15:24 UTC] No.44022053[source]▶
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.
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2. JoeAltmaier ◴[18 May 25 17:46 UTC] No.44023076[source]▶
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.

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3. y-curious ◴[18 May 25 22:17 UTC] No.44024710[source]▶
No wonder your friends avoid you. Blame it on your kid if you want, but your attitude is garbage. Bye.