Have you ever lost a fun friend to a relationship? Are you always secretly hoping your friend breaks up so you can have your crew back? Or have you ever woken up one day and realized that YOU are that boring friend in a relationship?

In this episode we cover how to still be a fun friend, not let your new relationship suck the juice out of your personality and maintain a work-life balance. We cover: 

- Cuffing season & too many holiday engagements 

- Dating cycle syncing 

- Big issues: one half of the couple dominates the other 

- Common patterns: losing yourself in a relationship 

- Throwing funerals for your friends you lost to a relationship 

- Battles: disapproving friends vs significant other creating a divide 

- Interventions: not worth it 

- When your interests become your partners interest 

- Establishing safety words  

- Voltrons, Siamese twin couples & other pet peeves 

- Couples that offensively use "we" for everything 

- Establishing important parameters to maintain social life separate from partner 

- Don't be the couple that no one can third wheel 

- The smug factor 

- Blackmail photo folders to resurrect your fun friend 

- Thoughts on sour skittles 

- Asking your partner for "me time"

- Missing your partner is a good thing