Third wheel

JaneTalks101

I don't mind hanging out with my "couple friends", it is nice that they want to spend time with me to catch up and all. What actually !!!!es me off is when my friends get into a relationship and forget about my existence and only remembers me when they get into a fight.

podperson

Wow, I think you're slightly building things up in your head here. I'm in a couple and we often go out with single friends. We don't see them as 'losers' but as our friend who might want to socialise with us. I'll also sometimes go out with another couple if my OH is away or doesn't fancy it - and he'll sometimes meet up with one of his friends and their partner when I don't fancy going. I very much people seeing us out with another couple would think 'oh god, what a loser because they don't have a partner with them'.

Really, I would suggest getting over yourself - if you don't want to socialise with your couple friends because you're busy imagining what people may say then by the time you do get a partner and are therefore 'allowed' to be seen in public with other couples then you may find you have few friends left because they've got tired of you refusing to see them.

Saturnalia

I'm always happy to be invited somewhere by my married friends - how many times do we hear of cases where couples only socialise with other couples and leave their old single pals behind?

maintenanceman

Nah its all rubbish. A third wheel is just a temporay distraction to add some diversity to a couples relation ship. Thats all At the end of the day tou are still alone, and thats fine.

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Pollycat

You either have some incredibly shallow friends or you are totally deluded about their reasons in asking you out.

Maybe we should all take notice of your signature. :cool:

Tish_P

If this is what you think of your friends, just tell them so! You will cease to have this problem and those friends.

PS. Decent people also love their "!!!!!! relatives".

lazer

I used to have a friend who every time we arranged to meet up for a drink or something would bring her boyfriend along as its if they couldn't be apart for an 1hr and it was so sickening - sometimes I just wanted to relax and have a girly conversations with her but couldn't do that with him present.
And as well as the boyfried she brought her 2 dogs, and the whole conversations revolved around - "Aww look at "Rover" - isn't he so cute, Rover come back etc.

She is no longer a friend - due to a number of different issues!