I am now heading towards 40.
Of course my husband and I have our own friends and two or three couple friends but over the last few years especially after Covid we are getting individual invitations where I would normally expect to be invited as a couple.
At the weekend another wedding invitation arrived just for him from a colleague to the whole day. This colleague became a friend of DH’s because of shared hobby and had been to the house several times.
A cousin of DH’s invited him and his siblings away for the weekend without any of our families.
One Of my own cousins got married again last year and they only wanted me to go.
Friends that we make seem uninterested in getting to know us as a couple and don’t have an interest in introducing their own husbands.
When we first got together everyone seemed more eager to mix and expand social circles.
Is this just my experience ? Have the norms and protocols changed?