COUPLES FRIENDS

Why is it so hard?! Why does one part of two people always tend to suck? Am I too picky? Or is this a universal issue? Are others struggling and just not admitting it? Where are the friend groups that look like Coor’s Light ads? Where are the like-minded parents that my kids were supposed to introduce me to in Kindergarten? Where are the other married people who lift us up instead of bum us out?

Since becoming a mom, I’ve managed to make a few new girlfriends in between the tumult and chaos of taming two wild animals. But making couple friends has proven to be infinitely harder. You can’t just like one part of a duo, you have to be into them both. And I’m usually not. Often, the guy is a robot who doesn’t know how to engage with women or talk about anything aside from sports and financial markets. And on the rare occasion that I’m surprised and he turns out to be great, it’s then the wife who is a neurotic, subclinically depressed mess. Like a middle-aged Goldilocks, I rarely hit it just right.