I think life just gets more complicated. Folks spread out. Work responsibilities grow. You have to prioritize time with your spouse. You have kids and their sch

I think life just gets more complicated. Folks spread out. Work responsibilities grow. You have to prioritize time with your spouse. You have kids and their schedules to work around. My friends aren't the only thing I don't have time for. There are seemingly a million things I once was enthusiastic about that don't make the cut. One thing I noticed in the alumni base of a club I was involved in university is that participation drops to near-zero for the folks who are in their mid-30s through early-50s. Then it starts to pick up again. It's that time of having pre-adolescent kids where life seems to really detach people from their old social circles, but some reemerge once their last kid becomes a teenager. I just had my first kid and moved to the suburbs, and I can already tell my physical connections with folks have dropped considerably.