Dear Eric: I became friends with “Sue” about 20 years ago; our husbands became friends, too. We would usually see each other for Friday night dinner and drinks.

Eventually they bought a camper and started going out to their camp every weekend. They welcomed us out there, and we went a few times, but it wasn’t ideal for us to spend the night, and it was too far to day-drink and drive home later at night. We hardly saw them during the summer months.

When the camp closed for the season, the Friday nights out would resume but included some of their new camper friends. We weren’t in on their inside jokes, didn’t know the other camper people they would talk about, or sometimes they couldn’t meet us due to plans with the camper friends.

Now they’ve moved to a new campground that stays open ye

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