Does anyone else feel like a third wheel?

Honestly, that's not very fair to you, but it may be wisest, as you are doing, to back off for a while. I can say, though, that sometimes a third wheel is only a third wheel if it thinks it is. Make of that what you will. I hope you feel better, though. You did a smart thing by letting them have their space, for now. I'm sure once the wife is reassured, things will return back to normal.

 

Whenever my brother and his girlfriend ask me to go out for a night, I always feel like a third wheel because I rarely ever talk. They're partying, having fun, while I am sitting down quietly, and nothing interesting is happening with me.

 

Two close friends of mine are dating and whenever they invite me out I make sure there is at least one other person going. I hate being the third wheel.

 

Very often. My four best friends are all either married or engaged to be married, and a good number of the people I'd met from their circles of friends are also paired off. I'm usually not alone with any one couple, and I'm fortunate that all have been very considerate so far of their single friends. I have gotten used to their displays of affection, but must admit that it does amplify my loneliness sometimes to see them loving each other up.

 

I do. Most of the time. My friends, the true ones don't get this stupid jealousy thing about me, I am friends with both partners so I guess that works. But it has happened with one particular person (friend) and well..the relationship is ruined as well as it hurts a LOT - obviously the problem is their not mine, or their partners, whichever, but it hurts that I am getting the bitter end of it. Recently divorced here so I'm not even looking and not even indicating anything as such, in fact I kind of ... am scared of relationships and am very tentative making friends even so. Bleh, whatever. Bottom line I feel for you.

 

More like a single wheel, like a free electron, roaming about , for another charged particle to develope some type of journey with.
I've been the third wheel many times

 

I wish I had your optimism.

 

I feel like the spare wheel that stored in the trunk, only useful when needed and tossed back in when done with.

But when I had a close friend in high school, whenever she dated someone I always felt like the third wheel.

 

You know I lost a friend because her gf is jealous. It's pathetic if you ask me and I am honestly tired of trying to fix something. My opinion goes this way - if someone throws you out so easily, they are not worth your time, energy and nerves. Besides, I really wouldn't want to be with a person who is so freaking jealous and has no trust for me. Yuck.

 

Whenever I go home my brother and his girlfriend always invite me to go places with them. I usually do because it's either go somewhere with them or sit at home with my mom. I always feel like a 3rd wheel because the two of them rarely talk to me. It's so awkward.

 

I constantly feel like my friends just put up with me

 

I know I had a friend and we hanged out all the time doing different things.He got a gf and i stayed single.
All of a sudden it was him,her and....me.I was friends with both but we would go to the movies and they would sit with eachother in a row behind me and I'd think,"I thought this was a friends night out?".

One time he even said that sometimes he wished it was just him and me,just friends hanging out always having a good time.

Idk we are no longer friends and in the end they both got rid of me as a friend because he called it quits and she was his gf.I thought it was bs that her and I couldn't still be friends but their love wa.s more important than I.I thinks its Fd up.

 

I don't do the 3rd wheel thing unless theirs a group of us hanging out. But just the 3 of us nope i did that in the past and every time i did it turned out badly so i just stopped it all together and when someone asks me to hang out the 3 of us i just avoid the question or make up an excuse. Also i try not to get too close with my friends boyfriends or girlfriends simply because if drama happens they try to drag me into it and take sides and crap its a mess.

 

Glad that was sorted out for ya....

coz i seriously didnt know what to say while i was reading all the posts... ive never felt like a 3rd wheel ever... coz when my mates hang out we dont bring girls...and if a mate and his mrs wanna hang... its normally her that's the 3rd wheel...

Bro's before hoes has always been our saying..

 

OMG YES!!

I have reached that age where most of my friends are getting into relationships and now i just feel likete third wheel, all the time! We had a get together a few days back, and for some reason msot people deicded to leave the room. it was just me and this couple, it was really akkward because the gf was sitting on the guys lap being really intimate with eacother. I just walked out. It happens in clubs as well, so annoying. You happen to be with a couple and then they just start making out, i don't know what to do so i just walk away.