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Now that I’ve been married for just over a month, things are now settling down!
We’re finally starting to find a routine. As we work to get used to the inevitable changes (where do we store all our stuff!?!), one possible change is how we socialize. Granted, Mr. Peppermint and I have been together for over five years now, yet, I find that our single friends don’t know if it’s okay to hang out one-on-one or if they should include the spouse now. On the flip-side, many of our friends in relationships are excited to have a couple to get together with….
We found this video to be particularly poignant given our current dilemma:
So, my question to you: How have your social lives changed since being in a serious relationship? What are your “weekend plans”??
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that video is one part creepy and one part entirely accurate…how sad for us married folks 
You beat me to it, Miss Peppermint! I was going to post this later today 
Yeah, it’s kind of sad how accurate this video is about our social plans.
Hilarious and SO true. We don’t have children yet, so it’s a toss between partying with our single friends (we can’t seem to stay up late anymore) or sitting in the house/going on an EARLY dinner date with our married w/children friends! LOL
that video cracked me up. i’ve been saying “i want to make weekend plans with you and your husband” all morning.
hehe.. cute video.. hmm… i’m not sure if it’s the planning or just getting married in my head, but lately all i wanted to do was just stay at home. it could also be winter time and that’s usually when i hibernate anyways.. (hate the cold) i also have a buttload of diys to do so this is a perfect time to get them all done before spring comes.. =) when i see alot of my single friends out partying and such, especially when it involves them drinking to the point of “what the hell” and that just doesn’t make me want to hang out with them. worse feeling is trying to get them to leave the club early and when they are drunk, that’s 80% of the battle and just irritating. if it is dinner, no problems there whether it be couple or single friends. i love to get together with my girlfriends and just chat over dinner which is awesome. FI never usually hangs out since he’s more of a homebody and just likes to play his WoW. This works out perfectly for me cause we both have different tastes and don’t mind each other doing what we like to do on our own. We make time hanging out together, just the two of us which he prefers more than having to meet up with friends. I definitely don’t want my single friends to feel as if they have to hang out with both me and FI, although since they see less of him, they always ask if he will join which is usually no.. for me, i don’t want to feel as if i have to invite the husband along with my married gfs bc sometimes i just want to have girl talk and that will just bore the guy to death. I guess it all depends who you are better friends with and their personality. ok.. i’ll stop here.. =) that’s my two cents.
this is hysterical and, sadly, very true. There’s even a brunch place in my neighborhood called Toast that we love to eat at with our married friends! As it happens, about 90% of our friends are married or in serious relationships, so everyone seems to be on the same page. Next up is the baby wave!
this weekend i’m going to see my best friend from college all by my lonesome, it’s going to be great to have the girl time! although it’s also going to be weird to do things w/o my DH. glad that i’m not the only one that feels more “domesticated” than the rest of their friends.
Wow, that video is funny but kinda true! Though, for us, putting the club phase behind us had more to do with being over it than being in a serious relationship.
Unforch, most of my (younger) friends are still party-all-the-time-ers, while DH’s (older) friends are mainly married but with small kids. We are stuck in the middle!
LOL the video CRACKED me up I’ve been saying to my fiance “we need more friends” LOL… I have a smattering of all different types of friends now… I have some friends with babies who aren’t married , I have a few married friends with no babies, and some single friends, (oddly enough, no friends in like serious relationships really at the moment)
it’s very hard to find activities and time to socialize. SO much easier in college when most of your friends live within 2 miles of you, and similar schedules…
This is soo funny! It’s sad how accurate it is.
That’s a riot! We were just discussing this issue last weekend. And, we added that since the three couples that all get along (us–engaged, one married, and one long term waiting on that ring) don’t have kids, we’ve been narrowed even further from our kid-having married friends.
Ahahaha! That video made my morning. That is so, totally us. But we don’t think it’s sad at all - we love it! We’re very fortunate to have several couple friends that we get together with regularly. And yes, we have game night! It’s the best, lol (do I sound 32 or WHAT!). But we also still go out and party a bit…I mean, we don’t have kids yet.
I’ll have to send this to a girl I just met at the bridal fair - we sort of did the couple “pick up” thing and made plans for all four of us to ge together.
Thanks for posting. Too funny
That was hilarious! I am one of the first of my close friends to be getting married (though my fiance and I have been together for almost 6 years and we are nearly 30-that’s NYC for you!) and I love having single friends around me to keep me from becoming a SMUG MARRIED. I still love a late night with friends –it’s just that now I have people over rather then hitting the bars. I suppose one day I will succumb to the yuppie within.
Oh that is the best! It is sooo spot on it isn’t even funny! I about died when they brought up Napa!
thanks for that!!!!!!!
We still find ourselves to be very busy, including on the weekends but I think it’s a different busy. The ways we’ve changed have more to do with the fact that our friends (mostly from college) aren’t in the area, he commutes to and from Seattle (1 hour) every day, and/or his family lives way out of state. And, after going-going-going all week we’re perfectly okay chillin at home!
We don’t have as many of the “lets go out to the bar” nights as a “lets go to the movies, out for dinner/drinks, to your brother’s house” kind of nights. I had a night out with just girlfriends–half of whom are single–for the first time since the wedding and still had a good time, but it was different.
Of course I finally get home from work, chat w/ FI and both over-eagerly agree we want to stay in tonight, change into our “grubby house clothes” and I’m settled into the couch checking today’s posts . . . and watch this. Hysterical! And totally true.
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Miss Peppermint, LA/Palm Springs
Age and Occupation: 23, Actress
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Web Producer
Engagement Date: October 21, 2006
Wedding Date: December 2007
Blogging Since: July 2, 2007
Venue: historic estate overlooking the heart of Palm Springs
About Me: I am a Southern California native who enjoys cooking, writing, travel and all things in the arts. Mr. Peppermint and I met in college and he proposed on our four year anniversary in one of our most special places, Joshua Tree National Park. We're having a destination wedding in Palms Springs that will incorporate tradition as well as reflect our personalities!
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