How do you balance your time with long term friends and a partner? Previously I have experienced how a partner seemed to take up pretty much my whole calendar, to an extent where I just felt like I didn’t have time to nurture my relation to friends, really sucked. To be fair, I probably didn’t set boundaries clear enough. I have also experienced others getting too busy to hang out (at least less frequently) when being in a relationship, and I have a hard time figuring out if it’s just the way it is. I get that building a relationship takes effort, time, energy all that, but to me it seems wrong to neglect friends - and I have learnt from my previous relationship how I don’t want to behave. What I hope to understand is just whether it’s normal to drastically change priorities, and as the friend is it fair to talk to them about how they seem to “forget” you? I think I would have appreciated that talk, but what do you think? For context, no kids, mid 20’s, friends for ~8 years submitted by /u/siggezag
Originally posted by u/siggezag on r/AskMen
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