re: How many friends did you lose after settling down?

Bleh...when I was drinking 6-7 nights a week I had hundreds of numbers in my phone and probably 40-50 close friends. When I cut back to hardly never a lot disappeared. When I met my wife, I cut contact with the females (it's what I do).

These days, everyone is working a job they hate, have a kid they don't like, and have a wife they might kill.

My wife and I actually get along...so we occasionally will do dinner with other couples we know who are childless and don't hate each other yet.

Two things people should do before marriage : live together, spend two weeks in a car on a roadtrip...multiple times. If you can spend 3 or 4 days with someone who hasn't bathed confined in a car between hotel stops....that's a friend.