I like to separate friendship and relationship like my boyfriend ain’t gonna be around my friends and I ain’t going to be around his friends. Works best for me that way. Wbu?

Personally talking especially if they are single. You don’t know what they are wishing for and jealousy can happen unintentionally so I would rather keep it separate to have a good relationship with everyone.

I have decided, I will have my friend over etc when my partner is not around. I think it works best for me. You can call me what u want idc haha. Just viewing my opinion on it.

You can view your opinion but if u try to talk down upon my opinion. I will block you:)

I think there could be a nice balance between hanging with them separately and then doing things together! But everyone has their own take on it so def not judging :)

I think there can be a balance. I’ll go out with my girlfriends alone and my husband will do the same with his friends. But then we’ll have gatherings with everyone together.

I have my gfs that I have seperate girls nights and go their house. And he has his boys that he has separate boys nights. But once in awhile we have a double date, or we’re both invited to their kids bday or they’re invited to ours. That’s taken friends though. My single gfs….we like to go out into the city on a Friday night as they’re kinda looking but not looking 😂 (when kids are with the BD/ex) they’re putting themselves out there, having fun, living life. We like to go have drinks and go dancing, karaoke. My single friends don’t ever come over, really, I see them out. I didn’t plan it like that it’s just how it’s done here.

@Kellie if that works best for you , why not! Just curious tho, why you don’t invite your single friends ? Any reasons or ?

No reason. We’d prefer to be out and about in town 😂 that’s why I said I didn’t plan it like that. Plus, I have 2 teens a toddler a husband and my MiL in my house 😂 it’s full house. If I’m going anywhere, it’s to hers, or out 💁🏻‍♀️ my sisters are the only ones that come over regularly, the only ones I know that can handle my zoo 😂 and ME I wanna get dressed up and go out also lolol My single gfs don’t have the kids with their BD often so when they don’t have the kids they call me and we go out, I think the last thing they wanna do is come over. It’s rare that they get a night out

I think this mentality is for relationship that hasn’t gotten serious. Idk how you could keep close friendships separate when you are in a serious relationship and especially living together. I’m not calling my husband’s friends but I definitely know them and they’ve been around.

@Haley 💚 Lol, I have been with my partner 2 years and we have a little one. I think that’s quite serious. That’s just what I prefer from experience and so on and that’s completely fine cos it does work for me and if something else different works for u that’s completely fine too:)

So you do not invite people over? No birthday parties or celebrations?

To an extent I agree. We are sometimes "around" each others friends but don't usually hang out together. If a friend and her husband are having a party then my husband might go with me. But if I'm just trying to hang out with my friend I'd be annoyed if my husband wanted to come. He plays d&d and sometimes his friends come here. I say hi and whatever but go do my own thing. We know each other's friends but aren't really friends with each other's friends if that makes sense.

I trust my partner and friends so it’s not a problem for me

if i had to worry about my single friends i don’t think we’d be friends lol. but i don’t think i can be in a relationship where we never meet each others friends just because they’re single. all my friends gotta deal with it because my husband is my bestfriend so he goes everywhere with me haha

I think when we were teenagers it was always important for all the mates to meet etc (probably to create like a cushion) but as I’ve grown up I’ve noticed more and more people keep them separate. I’ve met my ministers friends in passing but not hung out and same with him. However if you’d have asked me at 18 I would’ve says it’s mandatory to mix 🤣

Completely disagree. My husband is so chatty and sociable, if I’ve got friends over then he’s always welcome to join and he loves getting to know new people! And vice versa, I enjoy meeting/hanging out with his friends that I hear work stories about etc. It doesn’t mean I never hang with my friends without him or vice versa but I’d never go out of my way to stop him coming along. Single or otherwise. Separate lives may work for some but it doesn’t seem like a very healthy way to be in a relationship to me.

My husband hates double dates unless it’s his friends and their partners 🙄 he’ll only do it with my friends and their partners if I force him or trick him 🤣 he doesn’t want to hang with my friends of be involved in my friendships if my friends come over he’ll come and say hi and then he’ll disappear. I don’t particularly want him involved in my friendship’s anyway just like I’m not involved in his friendships but I do know all his friends and they know me, I feed half of them 🤣I also keep the two relationships separate I don’t talk about my man to my friends I just never have and never will.

I don’t like my partners friends, they’re all losers and wasters who never left their tiny home village. My partner left and became successful. He has some better friends. My friends are dotted all over so when I see them it’s more 1:1 time