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Such as spending time with friends, co-workers, and neighbors. Do married people are less likely to engage in friendships with others vs the people who are not married, or in a relationship?
I wouldn't call it anti social. Do you expect a newly married person to hang out with the guys? To do the same things with the same people as they did before they were married?
I have many married friends. They are not anti social. There are times they no longer fit in the group. The same as there are times that singles do not fit into their group.
You sound young. You have to realize that you have some friends for somethings and other friends for other things. It is not high school where everyone does everything together.
No they are not "anti-social". They just have different priorities. As they move on with their lives, they have less time for the activities that their single friends participate in. Once they have kids, they will have even less time for that stuff.
I am single and have a lot of married friends. I honestly have found my relationship with my friends has not changed all that much when they get married. It probably helped that I made an effort to be friendly with or even become friends with most of their spouses. Basically, all marriage has done is expanded our social circle by one .
Sure there may be a bit less "one on one" time, but honestly the difference between friend with long term gf and married friend is pretty negligible in that regard. And of course, some people go through a "disappearing" stage when they first get married, but they usually re-engage socially eventually .
I also find I sometimes "cut myself" out of social events to some extent because I don't like being the odd man out. Most of my friends are now couples, and to go to dinner for example with 3 couples and be the only single dude can be a bit awkward. I am always invited though - they want me to come - that's just a personal thing on my side. Of course, I've now moved to the opposite coast so those situations come up less often, but the idea stands .
The thing I have found that radically changes friendships is not marriage, but having children. That creates such a massive change in priorities and frankly loss of free time that it seems inevitable that socializing with people without children decreases drastically. For people with kids, their social life is wrapped up in their kids - school, soccer games, play dates. That's not to say I do not maintain friendships with my friends who have kids, but it is more of a "we keep up online and meet for dinner once a year" than an active social relationship. The friendship is still strong, it's just not as social.
Depends on the couple and how much they want to socialize as a couple or individually.
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