Do you ever feel like you've outgrown your friends?

I love my friends, but recently I feel like we're growing apart. They're still heavy into the party scene, always wanting to get wasted and hook up with random guys. It's hard to have serious conversations with them. They tell me I'm boring and that I'm "changing," like that's a bad thing. Don't we all change? Is that so bad?

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Wraithorn · 51-55, M

It happens. People change , that's life. It's not a bad thing. There comes a time when we outgrow peer pressure. That means you are maturing. It can be upsetting when our paths split from those of our friends but it does happen. You must do what is best for you and hopefully your friends will understand.

I gave up drinking and partying when I was 23 and my friends who couldn't deal with that turned out to not really be good friends anyway. Our paths had to go different ways.