https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:59:32 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421901 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:19:39 +0000 chopsuey 421901@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Most of my close friends used to be guys. :(<br /> Once I met DH and got married they all went mIA. I guess it didn't help that I moved across the country.<br /> DH wouldn't like me hanging out with them anyway. :T </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421881 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:14:42 +0000 Goldilocks1107 421881@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes I did and no we don't. Mainly because I'm 99.99% sure he was "interested" in me. While we were friends, I willfully ignored it because I valued our friendship too much. I guess after I got married, he gave up hope and didn't want to still hang out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421874 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:11:31 +0000 heffalump 421874@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My best guy friend is gay. So DH and my relationship didn't get in the way. What did get in the way was that I moved far away, and we just grew apart and in different directions in life. Makes me sad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421817 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:54:33 +0000 mrs. wagon 421817@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The guy I would consider my closest guy friend still lives in the area and we keep in touch, but we don't really hang out. He recently got married too and it's just too hard to try and get together. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421799 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:48:37 +0000 Pink Champagne 421799@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do! We're still close even though he lives way too far away for visits. I have so much love for him and his wife and daughter, and I'm super thankful that he's still in my life. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421794 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:46:43 +0000 Lozza 421794@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One of my best friends (the one I talk to almost every day) is a guy, and we hang out alone all the time, both with and without DH (and both with and without LO), but I think people find it less weird since he's gay. I tell him he saves me thousands of dollars in therapy bills since I just tell him everything :) He's also single and not really into kids, but he has been way better than I'd ever expected about hanging out with LO. He's still a little skittish when it comes to interacting with LO directly (he won't pick him up, for example), but he'll hold all my other stuff or push the stroller or do any other LO-related task if we're out with LO together :)<br /> Most of my other close guy friends are people I met through DH, so while I occasionally talk to them without DH, DH is usually around.<br /> DH has zero jealousy issues, and so on the rare occasions I want to go hang out with a guy or guys that he's not really friends with, he doesn't mind at all and will happily watch LO while I go out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421756 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:32:10 +0000 JerricaBenton 421756@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do - we used to hang out all the time but he and my husband never really clicked so we only get together every once in a while. Usually we bring another friend along. It's funny because he just got married and I thought maybe we could all hang out and do couple things but it just hasn't happened. We still email and chat but I guess it'll never be the same. College guy friends are different because we always hang out in groups so those relationships are basically the same. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421639 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:36:30 +0000 sunny 421639@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used to.. I moved away tho so I don't see him often. We used to chat all the time, even after I met DH but now that he is dating someone he has way less time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421574 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:18:34 +0000 Meridian 421574@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, we've been best friend for 14 years and still consider each other to be "best friends". Although sadly, we don't talk nearly as often anymore. We still get together every other month or so to hang out for an afternoon. DH has no problem with it because they are friends too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421463 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:31:57 +0000 Silva 421463@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a big group of guy friends when I was younger. I slowly stopped hanging out with them because I stopped partying as much, but I'm still very close with one of them and we talk often.</p> <p>I also have two other close guy friends from other parts of my life (one from middle school, one from graduate school), and we talk often.</p> <p>All three of them live very far away though, so we don't see each other often. But we talk pretty regularly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421442 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:24:58 +0000 Alivoo01 421442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did in HS, but we hardly talk now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421431 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:20:22 +0000 MrsBrewer 421431@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope. I had 1 before I met DH, but that just made DH feel really uncomfortable with just me hanging out with another guy. So I still hung out with my friend but normally it would be a big group of us. We kind of lost contact through the years though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421424 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:18:00 +0000 ValentineMommy 421424@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have 2, and we still hang out. I don't know if it makes a difference, but they're both gay....so it was, is, and always will be (obviously) platonic. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421400 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:12:02 +0000 SugarplumsMom 421400@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@rachiecakes: Haha, no I would drink him under the table! My guy friends never let any of the girls pay though. They were like older bros. It was really just platonic for us, I even set him up with his (now) ex-wife and he dated a good friend of mine during HS. He used to hear me whining over DH back then. Argh, I guess I just miss hanging out. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421369 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:00:09 +0000 hellobeeboston 421369@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes!!! We are still very close - we were in each others weddings and we both just had babies and he just asked me to be the godmother. Yay! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421363 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:56:57 +0000 twinmama 421363@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes I did and we're still close, though we don't talk/see each other super often....like most of my college friends since we live all over the place. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421362 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:56:38 +0000 Maysprout 421362@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We've moved a couple times so they're all far away. I havent talked to in probably at least a year - what happens when you're on the other side of the country. The other good guy friend has kinda taken on more of a brother status he visits my family for holidays even if i'm not there, his family is moving back overseas and he's married and expecting a LO so I think my mom serves as his in country mom. We never hang out one on one anymore but we'll talk on the phone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421355 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:54:48 +0000 lioneyes 421355@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did and still do (since college). He spoke at our rehearsal dinner, and now he and DH work out with the same trainer and then the 3 of us go to brunch. We definitely don't go our hard like we used to right after college, but that's because we are old/in serious relationships. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421353 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:54:25 +0000 SleepyMonkey 421353@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, I had 2. We barely talk anymore and it makes me sad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421351 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:53:54 +0000 Arden 421351@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did, he was my "bridesman". He got married to my best friend's sister in July. We're still close, although we live on opposite ends of the country.<br /> We're considering naming him and his wife as LO's guardians if something were to happen to us.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421350 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:53:45 +0000 Mrs. Pen 421350@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did in high school. He went to a different college, and when we both started dating other people it got a little weird - like it didn't feel right, the two of us hanging out without our BF/GF. Sooo it slowly kind of wittled away to just a casual "hey how ya doing" type of friendship. My DH likes him though and we're mentioned a few times double-dating with our spouses but it just hasn't happened. He lives about 45 minutes away so it takes a little more effort. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421341 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:51:53 +0000 rachiecakes 421341@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Crumbs: did they ever carry you home? haha, mine did! </p> <p>I had a few guy friends that suddenly stopped hanging out with me when I moved in with DH. I was really upset and DH said it was because they were probably hoping that I'd fall for them. I remember thinking that was ridiculous, but now a decade later, it was probably true for some of them. Oh well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421335 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:49:42 +0000 autumnlove 421335@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I do and we still hang out! We have been friends since high school! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/did-you-have-an-old-best-guy-friend-before-your-dh-do-you-still-hang-out#post-421331 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:46:45 +0000 SugarplumsMom 421331@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I miss drinking with my best guy friend. Well, we're no longer BFFs since he's been MIA since I got with DH, that punk! I just finished watching a drama with 2 platonic friends just blabbering and getting drunk, talking about completely different things and all the sudden missed my old BFF. </p> <p>I suppose we can't just hang out like that anymore, even if I wanted to. I don't think DH would mind but I'd feel too bad leaving him with LO.</p> <p>Did you have a guy BFF prior to meeting DH? Do you still hang out or keep in touch? </p>