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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My definition of family friend is different.

Our family friends are friends WE had before we had kids.  When we all had kids, we continued those friendships, which were based on liking each other and commonalties totally outside of our kids.  Our kids ended up spanning ages and they are more like cousins than anything else.  We all live in this general area but they don't go to school together.  Do they love each other every minute?  Did you love all your cousins?  Maybe not.  But they are relationships they've had in their life the whole time and it ebbs and flows.  Yes as they grow into teen years they don't always participate in everything we do as a group and that is also totally fine.[/quote]

Yup, that's us too. Our closest, longtime friends are like family, and our kids are like cousins. They'll always be close, even if they go months without seeing one another. OTOH, we have good more recent friends who also have kids, and there's less of a bond amongst them, especially in the cases with big age gaps. They'll all hang together on the rare occasion when we plan, say, a holiday party-- but it wouldn't be their choice. And that's fine.[/quote]

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