Hello Joe!

Your situation is not strange at all! Everyone goes through a different life phases and at different times. The friends you’ve known since high school who haven’t started the same things, are just on a different page than what your life is on right now. I think it’s normal to enjoy time with your family and families are busy, I think it’s common to not have much room on your plate for the things you may have had time for previously. I’m a single person, but I have have had many friends have families or start families and the differences are there. I know that my life and the things in it, have different meaning and where I spend my time is different, just as it is for a family. Your focus now is spending time with your family and enjoying the time together (and it sounds like you are). And maybe given your family life, your circle of friends might change as well. Which isn’t a bad thing; just expanding because of the new things you’ve got in your life:)