1.   Divorced and separated women often complain of the speed with which they lose contact with their Married friends.

2.   A number of recently married friends report that guests showed up at their nuptials in droves, many of them uninvited tagalongs.

3.   After Connie Eich was widowed, she lost touch with her married friends.

4.   In fact, when her now-solid marriage faltered in its early years, some married friends dropped her like a hot potato.

5.   Not long ago, a caller told of a married friend coming to her with news of an illicit affair in which she was involved.

6.   Pat Miller also drifted away from her married friends when she divorced two years ago.

7.   Sets of married friends imagine one another as Fred and Ethel Mertz.

8.   She said she felt like an alien among her married friends.

9.   That leaves them with no more time to carouse than their married friends.

10.   Then one Sunday she was having brunch with some newly married friends who were apartment-hunting.