so you know everyone has their group of friends, I have mine and my boyfriend has his. ive only ever had my best friend hangout with my boyfriend and I so that he could get more familiar with my friends (mainly just her because she's like the only friend I actually hang out with 😅) and I've hung out with him and his best friend (we used to go on double dates a lot until his girlfriend broke up with him) as well as his other friends. he's a little older and we didn't go to school together so it's not like we have any mutual friends. usually if he's with his friends and I'm not around I'm like "cool, have fun with your friends, I'll talk to you whenever you're not busy" because I wouldn't like if he's texting his friends the entire time he's with me so I feel like if he's giving me that attention when it's just us he should do the same for them. but anyway he's invited me to go see the movies with him and his friends & it was a movie that I really really wanted to see so I didn't think about the fact that I was going to be the only girl and when we first got there it wasn't long before I felt uncomfortable. his friends didn't do anything that made me feel that way at all, they were super nice and they wouldn't talk to me so much it was like they were forcing conversation to patronize me and make things less awkward which in turn made it more awkward, it was just more like "hey I'm acknowledging the fact that you're here and I want you to know that I'm ok with it" and they would ask what I thought about the movie and though I felt kind of uncomfortable they didn't make me feel unwanted. but he invited me to see suicide squad with them (which I should've gone because I wanted to watch it 😂) I was contemplating and I was like they're your friends not mine, I like them just fine but I know they don't see me as a friend, they see me as their friends girlfriend and I can respect that. I went to the last movie, so I'll sit this one out. I don't want it to get to the point where they're just like "why does he always have to bring his girlfriend around" I know they like me, but I've been in a situation where I was hanging out with friends and one of their boyfriends showed up and it was just awkward. he was going on a trip with them this weekend and he REALLY wanted me to go with him because I'm leaving for college soon -I'm not going too far but it's far enough that I'll probably only come home on weekends-  and he wanted to spend time with me (I couldn't go because something came up) and I was considering it very carefully. I FORCED him to make sure his friends were ok with it, and they all said yea, but I feel like even the car ride would be awkward. I know they can all respect the fact that he's in a relationship and he wants me around, but I feel like they would get sick of me. I'm fine letting him have his time with his friends, and he says they don't mind but I feel like if he tries to bring me around too often it's going to get to a "why do you have to bring your girlfriend to everything" and it's just going to cause a problem later. do you hang out with your SO friends? would anyone else agree that going on a weekend trip (and being the only girlfriend) would be weird ?