changed..

I talked to a friend today over IM. He told me he get sad every time he talks to me. He says he feels like he's lost his good friends forever. This all happened around the time we had and lost Charlie. I grew up next door to this long lost friend, and we've remained close our whole lives. He married a nice girl whom DH and I got along with well. We all used to get together to play euchre, and go to dinner, and go on mini-weekends together..
A few months before we had Charlie, they had their first child. We had so many things planned. We were all going to go to Disney together, and camping together.. family vacations... and basically have our children grow up together. It was such a fabulous plan...
But then Charlie came.. and went... and things changed.
Our friends still had their child.. and we did not..
I think they didn't know how to relate to us anymore, and we didn't know how to relate to them...
We were in different places.. everything had changed...
I'm saddened over the loss of this friendship, as we used to all be close. I wouldn't exactly say it's a lost friendship either.. it's just changed..
Hopefully someday we can all reconnect. Our friendship may not be the same as it was, but we aren't the same people we were before Charlie changed our lives forever. :)