To ask how many couple friends you have?

[Lovingit81]

I'm interested to know how many 'couple' friends people have. As I've got older (I'm 37) my friendship group has dwindled a bit and we don't seem to have many couple friends. My DH has some good friends and colleague and so do I but we have about four main couple friends and I would like more! I'm considering bullying my DH into joining some extra curricular activities to make friends Am I mad??

Not that many. In dh side two
On my side two but it’s the women that are mainly my friend there but we get on well with their partners too.

I prefer to keep my friends just for me

None!

I have friends who are in couples and even friend who my DH has gone on to be friends with the bloke half of the couple but we don't go out all together unless to a kid thing.

I see my friend when suits and DH does bloke stuff with the friend husband at other times - photography days out or music.

Loads, but we don't do much very often. We have been on holiday and had night out and in with my side of the friends but not my dps, unless it's something like a wedding. Not sure why, maybe they don't like me 😂

Wow, four seems like a lot of couple friends. We have many of our own friends, who have wives or husbands. We will enjoy the odd dinner etc as couples.

Four, we socialise regularly, nights out, gigs, dinner at each other's houses, weekends away, it's enough actually. We also socialise individually as males or females, not just as couples.

I'm not sure it's about how many but how often you see them and socialise together.

Thanks for your comments For those who were confused, it's not that I pick friends on their relationship status, more that it's nice to have some friends where you can all get on and the kids can play together etc.

I will mull these comments over.

Thanks again x

You’re right. We don’t pick friends on relationship status but most of ours we’ve known almost forever from student days or primary school days. Some were single when we met but then married. We’ve very few friends who are divorced or separated. A couple of friends on second marriages after being widowed.
I think it depends what you do for entertainment. We don’t ‘go out’ really. We have supper parties, village events, meals out with friends and all those tend to be as couples.

Loads.

We are both quite sociable.

I would like more couples friends. As I would like to go out more