Don’t ghost your friends for someone new. Those friends are who you’ll be crying to if it ends.

New relationships absorb everything if you let them. The excitement is real and it makes the rest of your life feel temporarily unnecessary, which is exactly when friendships get quietly dropped. Those same friendships are the ones you would need if this did not work out, and they do not restart on command. People remember being put on hold.

Keep one standing thing with your friends and do not cancel it. Tell them what is going on instead of disappearing. If the new person minds you having other people, that is worth noticing early.