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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting...my parents are still friendly with many of the parents of my HS classmates - they get together on a regular basis with them and it's not over 30 years since I graduated HS!

Our oldest is in college and we still see the parents of their close friends regularly - we just had a few couples over for a cookout on the 4th.

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Oh yea?  How many and how often and where do your parents live?  We need context, sister.

In my spouse’s small midwestern town, sure, her parents continued to see the parents of her friends well into their 80s.  But that’s a whole different dynamic.  And yes, having a few couples over for the fourth when your kid is still in college isn’t the same thing either — especially if the college aged kid and their friends were also there.

The fact is that in urban areas such as ours,when you base social life on the parents of your kids’ friends you are generally going to be in for a rude awakening when your kids leave the nest. Yes, you can reasonably expect to hold on to one or two of them but most of them will disappear.[/quote]

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