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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm so sorry for you son, OP, but this sort of thing happens all the time and happens all your life (like when your friends have kids before you do or marry after you do)  Still, it hurts.  All you can do is remind him what a great kid he is and help him get involved in the things that interest him.  [b]Tell him to be kind to his old friends - by the time they all get to college they will be friends again.  [/b]

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I do agree with your advice re being kind but the fact that they'll be friends again by college/in college is totally untrue. 2-3 yrs is a long time at this age and you have no idea what these guys will be into by then. They may be even more girl crazy or hanging out basically with their girlfriends' friends or whatever. So you can't count on "oh when the newness of dating wears off, we'll be buddies again." Maybe they will -- which is why it's important to be kind. But OP's son can't sit around waiting for that to happen -- he has to develop a different social group on his own for right now. Maybe the 2 groups merge at some point or maybe they don't.[/quote]

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