@DeeCeeCherry
I have a single friend who'd like to be in a relationship. She has 3 married friends who like to rock up to hers with wine, spend the whole evening whinging about their husbands and telling her she's so lucky to be single 🙄. Then they go home to their husbands.
So rude
Oh I can relate to this. I'm married, but unfortunately we can't have children (which we only found out not that long ago and are still coming to terms with). Met up with a couple of friends recently who talked for hours about the difficulties of parenting. Which is absolutely fine, I am always happy to listen to my friends. But after three hours of this, and a couple of cocktails, when one of them said 'you just don't know hard it is' I replied 'no, I kind of wish that I could know', I was then told at length that I was lucky, I get to enjoy life with no responsibilities (ha, if only), and that really I should be grateful that I can't have children, as I'd never have to worry about any of the stuff they do.
Whereas another friend, who has three very young children, yes, talks to me about the stresses and worries that she has. Then also asks about mine. That's the key, isn't it?
Selfish people are selfish, @LemonKnickers, whether they are married, single, parents, grandparents. I don't think it's the fact that your friends are married that makes them selfish (no more than my 'friends' being parents makes them), it's just that they are selfish.
I realise the irony that in talking about others being selfish, I've wittered on about myself on your thread, which is pretty selfish. So I guess I too am selfish, but at least self-aware 