When people in your friendship group begin to reach milestones that the rest of you aren't ready for, it can really begin to fracture what was an otherwise tight-knit bond. These milestones include things like getting into serious relationships, marriage, and having children - and if all of you aren't on the same page, then conversations may become stilted if you don't make a serious effort to not let the relationship go stale. A woman admitted that her friend, who had recently had a baby wanted to take her newborn everywhere with her, and the "baby changed the dynamics" because she forced them to not participate in things they used to together, such as drinking alcohol - so the group started hanging out without her.
The woman wanted to know whether she was in the wrong for banning her pal from social events now she had a baby, so she took to Reddit to write: "One of my (F24) friends, Anna (F24) had a baby around six months back. Our friend group is otherwise childless. All of us used to hang out a lot before the baby was born.
Baby changed dynamics because Anna wanted to bring the baby everywhere with her and it's a baby. "We tried to plan things around baby to include Anna but it always ended up badly. We shouldn't drink, because Anna can't drink.
We shouldn't be loud because the baby needs to sleep. The icing on the cake is that her baby is extremely fussy and cries all the time. It was just a downer for the rest of us.
So we started hanging out without Anna and her baby.".