Mental Monday: Dating Other Couples

do you watch How I met your mother? There have been quite a few episodes dedicated to this. Marshall and Lily are always looking for a couple to date…

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Hi! I love the idea of “dating” other couples, its so very true that having married friends to hang out with is really fun (and necessary!) BTW, thanks for being a first time commenter on my blog!

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Hey there, stopping by from SITS! I have to say, I haven’t been able to date a man, much less date a couple with said man. But one thing I’ve gotta say, there’s something amazing about the couples who can entertain a single person. I have been the third or fifth wheel with a few couples, and sometimes it’s not very comfortable, but other times it’s like we’re just a bunch of friends sitting around and enjoying the evening.

So I know it’s slightly off topic from this post, but couples, please don’t leave all your single friends in the dust while you search out your married friends!

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How funny and how true. The Hubs and I are still searching for a special couple to friend with.

Stopping by from SITS.

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My boyfriend and I have mostly single friends. It makes it a little challenging at times and we often wish we had other couples to hang out with. I don’t think I’d ever use one of those websites though. I don’t know why, but the idea of it weirds me out.

SO TRUE! It’s so hard to find a couple that me and the Hubby both like. I have my friends and he has his and rarely do they meet in the middle!

Thanks for stopping by and welcoming me to SITS!

hub and i were a bit older when we got married, so we both had established relationships…
it took a while to make new couple friends, but together we have found some really great friends…

i just signed up for SF bloggy boot camp too!
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Oh my goodness, it is so hard to find couples to date, if you will. My husband and I are 22, so that makes it an added stress for us to find couple friends that we both enjoy, since the large majority of our friends are single and going out all the time, while I’m staying home with a 13 month old and he’s working during the day. We wouldn’t even know where to meet other couples at! lol I might have to check that site out!

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Don’t think I have heard of this….
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Interesting thoughts. I wonder how much the prevalence of separation and divorce makes this issue worse in our lives? We get married, bringing to the relationship all our pre-marriage friends. We spend time getting to know new wives/husbands, and we all rub along like a big family for the sake of our original friend. But then there’s a divorce and someone new comes along, the person we had got used to disappears and we are asked to become friends with someone else IF we are to keep the friendship of the partner. It’s work, and I wonder if this is why many people decide to let old friendships go rather than get used to yet another partner…

Solid post. I totally agree that hanging out with couples where you don’t have right chemistry with one (or sometimes both) can be soul-draining.

We’ve got friends who are great as individuals and couples that we can ‘date’ but they don’t live near enough for it to be a regular thing. It’s fun while it lasts, but on the whole our social lives are pretty separate – me and the kids (my constant homies) and hubby and his mates down the pub.

We are aiming to do more grown-up dinner parties and stuff to widen our circle of couple friends – and especially cool folk with young kids, as that’s a third category that can be difficult to find or bond with.

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Popped in from SITS to say hi! Since moving to SA three years ago, the only couples we get along with are in their 50s and retired!

Stopped by from SITS – I have to say that since moving to Charleston, we don’t seem to have couples we like together – I have lots of mommy friends, and Wayne has friends/colleagues from work, but we really don’t have couples we socialize with regularly… I guess part of that is that we have different social needs – Wayne is out and talking all day as a professor and I’m a stay at home mom with a non-verbal 3 year old… so when I want to go out its to have conversation and he just wants quiet…

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My husband has his best friend, male, and his wife, as well as the brother, wife and parents of his best friend as friends. He also has another best friend, female, who has been in a long term relationship for over 10 years. Of his friends, the female best friend and her boyfriend are the only ones we’ve hung out with on a regular basis. I see his other friends possibly once a year for some occasion or another. As for me, I have my best friend and her husband, someone I consider my brother, and we do things together as a couple all the time. We have tried hanging out with other couples, but it just didn’t work out. Stopping in from SITS. Enjoyed your synopsis today!

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OMG! I need one of these sites!! My hubby and I seem to have a few couple friends, but when I like the wife, he doesn’t love the husband and vice versa…of course that could be because he seems to like very young guys and I am old, in menopause and have kids out my butt….

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Yes, and I hate dating. Fortunately for us we’ve lucked into some great friendships!

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I think that if we lived closer to one another we may be able to couple date.
We have a couple friend and we thank them and they thank us often because we do all like hanging out. We share similar things – got married in the same month, and had sons and bought houses in the same year – we love food and we like to be outside.

It is a gift!!

I love the blog Aimee! nice work! What do you have to say about feminist househusbands? BCH is doing splendidly.

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Glad to hear it’s not THAT kind of couples dating.

We hang out with the neighbours quite a bit. We are blessed with good ones.

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I’ve found it’s not just the PEOPLE who make up the couple you have to jive with, it’s the place in life that couple is. As I’ve gotten married and had kids my possiblities for friendships with other couples has diminished greatly. We just don’t have the same time to hang out and many of our older firends DON’T have kids so we’re not in the same place in life.

Very frustrating

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We have struggled with this couple thing for the entire 35 years of our marriage. At one time our best friends were married to each other. When they divorced we were way too involved and started arguing about their problems. We ended up “divorcing” ourselves from both of those friendships. Kind of sad, but necessary.

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We don’t have any couple friends….but we met a couple at a comedy show and had drinks with them after…and we exchanged numbers. We haven’t heard from them and I’m afraid that they won’t like me sober.

Oh well…

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