Oh fuck. My last single friends are having a kid

[ralphlauren]

I am thrilled for them. Ugh. I feel odd and kinda sad.

[ralphlauren]

Such a sad/odd feeling. Ugh

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This is why we are five to ten years older than our current circle of friends.

We kept getting left behind by the procreators.

[ralphlauren]

Jul 26, 2014 1:33:22 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

This is why we are five to ten years older than our current circle of friends.

We kept getting left behind by the procreators.

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We went to celebrate my good friends 40th. Low and behold we celebrated her new pregnancy.

Somehow I left the shower and now I am planning a baby shower in November and have zero childless friends.

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Our group is having seven babies this year.

SEVEN!

Inside, I'm like, "YES! WE ARE ALL STUCK WITH EACH OTHER NOW!"

Crazy way to think, but it's just a sad reality.

[ralphlauren]

Sadly not a crazy way to think.

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Jul 26, 2014 1:45:07 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

A majority of our friends are on their second and third kids and I'm over here like

We have old friends (our age) who have kids in high school.

We just had fewer and fewer things in common over the years.

Different worlds indeed.

[underwaterrhymes]

One of my childhood friends has an 18-year old. Who just got married. (No judgment, but holy shit!)

So while we have a toddler who is learning to walk, she's toasting to her kid's marital happiness.

I'm so glad we waited, but it's so weird to me the different paths people's lives can take.

[Deleted]

Yeah, I am in this situation too. Even a lot of my friends who always said they didn't want kids have had them. H and I have been married 6 years and our average age is 30 so I know people are waiting for us to change our minds but I just don't see it happening.

One of my close friends is quite a bit older then me (by about 20 years). It was nice at first because she doesn't act old and even though she has kids they are adults so there was no 'well I can't I have to do bedtime/find a sitter/etc' but now she has grandkids so it's 'I can't I'm watching the grand babies'.

[tacokick]

Ugh. We have carefully cultivated childless friends and now we are all in the 30-45 range and still no kids! It can be done!

[starburst604]

We are pretty much that last couple, and we're almost 40 so no one really has little tiny ones. We figure at least by the time we finally have one, we'll have lots of babysitter options in a few years?

[starburst604]

Jul 26, 2014 4:21:00 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

One of my childhood friends has an 18-year old. Who just got married. (No judgment, but holy shit!)

So while we have a toddler who is learning to walk, she's toasting to her kid's marital happiness.

I'm so glad we waited, but it's so weird to me the different paths people's lives can take.

One of my good friends has a 20 and 18 yr old. Blows my mind she has 2 kids in college and I'm still working on getting one into my uterus.

[marylennox]

Jul 26, 2014 1:45:07 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

A majority of our friends are on their second and third kids and I'm over here like 

Lol for real. Story of my life.

It is a weird feeling to be the last ones left w/o kids. I love our friends and their kids, but do sometimes wish we had more cf couple friends.

[mariafromnj]

We got married 1st out of all our friends and yet we didn't want to rush with kids. Now at 35 & 38 (after 9 years of marriage) we are about to have our 1st. Most of our friends have kids already.
We still think it worked out well because we are ready for kids and weren't before.

[mrsukyankee]

I feel for you. We're old and child free.

[montereybride]

I will totally be your last single childless friend.

[pantsparty]

I'm pretty sure at this point H and I will be the last childless couple standing. We're happy with our decision, but there is definitely a certain feeling of being left behind.

[Eagles]

Jul 26, 2014 13:15:16 GMT -5 cats said:

DH has a friend from HS that is a grandmother. We are just starting TTC. That is a mindf*ck. (DH is 35.)

I have a friend from grade school who has a two year old granddaughter. I'm the same age as your DH.

I'm the very last of my friends and family without kids. In fact, most of my friends have at least two, some three, and a couple have four.

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I'm 35. About 2 years ago, my friends started to reproduce    And move to Brooklyn.  I definitely feel a bit abandoned because none of them are as fun as they were before kids.

We're the only married couple I know who doesn't intend to have children, but luckily for me about half of my friends are still single (so children, if they happen, won't happen for quite some time). 

The only friend I'm holding out long-term hope for is my gay friend who seems to have no interest in ever adopting.  Our dream is to move into a mews (well, first things first -- win lottery and THEN move into a mews because we want to move to this one specifically) and grow old together.  I know I'd break his heart if I ever changed my mind about kid-having.

[karmasabiotch]

I'm an old Mom. I don't fit in at all with the parents of J's friends. I didn't have very many close friends and for some reason the ones that I did have ended up not having kids, like my closest three friends.

I'm a lone wolf now.