So I'm at the point in my life where most of my friends are married, having babies of their own and were lucky enough to marry men without children.

I am lucky enough to have one very best friend who is single and free and amazing to whom I can vent and she's never judgemental and KNOWS never to get into the situation in which I have put myself.

I have another BF who didn't listen and is now in the same boat and we can cry together and talk for hours about how dumb we are. LOL

Now...I have another with whom I have been very best friends with since we were three years old! We USED to know eachother SO well. She has been married for 4 years and has a 1 and 2 year old...

When I call her and we are talking - if the girls are standing there yapping of course while we are on the phone she will ask what they are doing and sometimes they will talk to her via phone and when I move behind closed doors and tell her what REALLY is going on - like why we've had them for two weeks because their mother has decided she doesn't want them - she will say, "Well - I think it's great what you're doing but please don't downplay their mother in front of them."

When She, her DH, and we are altogether - she will just ask my not-so-dh about the girls? Really? And completely avoid the fact that I spend more time with them even than he does when they are here. I am the one planning things - baking with them, doing crafts, etc. I plan their bday parties, I dress them, etc. She acts like I have no role in anything? It's very upsetting and exhausting for me...

I've been raising these little girls - longer than her little ones have even been born?

Anyone else experience this? I am assuming this is the time when I have to let old friends go - people grow and change and create their own perceptions of situations.