It's a challenge to get my married male friends to show up for individualized social outings.
It's difficult to get my married male friends to show up for any kind of individualized social outings.
It's understandable why a married male friend would not be interested in showing up for a Friday/Saturday late night event where they serve as a wingman for me at local bars. Most married men (including the ones I know) are men with a blue pill ideology. Most of them did not enjoy the bar scene prior to when they got married and most have no desire to re-visit that stage in their lives. Most married men fumbled and stumbled through their unmarried days, but were finally able to get some woman for something longer term. Most married men had a scarcity mentality in the pre-marriage days and did not experience an abundance of woman options. It wasn't a pleasant time for most of them. Additionally, even for the ones who had more abundance pre-marriage, they are become more beta as time progresses and they just want to live their house in the suburbs, 1.5 kids, beta male lifestyle. The pre-marriage betas are also wanting to do the whole "house in the suburbs, 1.5 kids, beta male lifestyle" thing too.
It's even difficult to get married men to show up for things that don't involve going to bars and chasing pussie. I have a great example of this below.
I have a long history of playing tennis. I have some married male friends who play tennis at similar levels to me. One married male friend is nearly impossible to pin down to play tennis for 2 hours either on a weekend (day or night) or on some weeknight after work. That's discouraging. There have been times where I have asked him to play tennis and he responds that he "has to check with his wife". WTH! Get some testicles, man! Your wife can deal with you being away for 3 hours while you meet a male friend for ~2 hours of tennis play.
Before these men got married, it was possible to play Best of 3 Sets tennis (typically 1.5 - 2.5 hours of play, depending on the game outcomes) or even Best of 5 Sets tennis (2.5 - 4 hours of play depending on game outcomes -- Best of 5 sets are what male players do in major tournaments). It was far more common to do Best of 3 Sets in those days based on time constraints. Even when these guys had committed girlfriends, they would be more likely to be able to commit to ~2 hours of tennis play.
Tennis isn't the only example of this for a lot of men.
Unmarried men can often struggle to meet their married male friends for weeknight bowling or occasional day long fishing trips as 2 other common examples.
A lot of male friendship surrounds doing some sort of activity like tennis, fishing, surfing, bowling, etc.