[ SECRET POST #3543 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3543 ⌋

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Comments

Re: How do you deal with friends "growing up"?

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe expand your definition of what makes people interesting?

Re: How do you deal with friends "growing up"?

[kallanda_lee]

I don't know, I think I'm pretty lenient as it is, but there's just stuff that bores me out of my skull.

Re: How do you deal with friends "growing up"?

[(Anonymous)]

Part of the problem may be that you seem to feel above that kind of thing and that you deserve cookies for tolerating it.

Re: How do you deal with friends "growing up"?

[kallanda_lee]

I'm not "above" it, it's just not in my interest sphere, at all. Those things are not relevant to my life.

I had all those conversations at least once, because I genuinely am interested in what my friends are doing, but there's only so much conversation I can have about a kid I have zero feelings about or about where they got their interior decoration.

It's a bit like sports - nothing wrong with people who love them, I'm just not going to be able to hold a very interesting conversation about it in most cases.

Re: How do you deal with friends "growing up"?

[(Anonymous)]

I hate to say it, but a lot of parents don't seem to realize that other people don't find their kids as cute or interesting as they do. It's kind of like pets - I don't mind hearing stories about cute/funny things your pet did every once in a while, but when it becomes a constant thing, it just becomes tiring. It's your pet/kid, not mine. I don't have the same emotional attachment that you do and I can only pretend to be interested in the minutiae of their life for so long.

Re: How do you deal with friends "growing up"?

[(Anonymous)]

This. I don't have kids, but many of my friends do and somehow, we can still relate to one another. People don't suddenly turn boring overnight just because they procreated or bought a house, geez.

Re: How do you deal with friends "growing up"?

[(Anonymous)]

Some people honestly do, though. I've lost a couple of friends because when they had kids, their entire life became about their kid and it was like they lost the ability to talk about anything else without somehow bringing the topic back to the kid. Meanwhile, I have other friends with kids who are still pretty much the same people they were before kid, just with less free time and more responsibilities - which is completely understandable.

Re: How do you deal with friends "growing up"?

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT - Agreed. I know someone who didn't have kids, but just decided to become more conservative - I don't mean politically or socially (although she is more those things now as well), but in the sense that she went from making funny jokes to jokes being Not Allowed. It was pretty depressing, really. Sometimes she's still her old silly self, but it's definitely limited.