STBXH wants to show kids what a "real family is"

[MeMyselfandI]

I have another situation that I know I'm not handling properly but I feel kinda "stuck" where I am right now on it because I don't know how to fix it.

One of his complaints was that we didn't have any friends in common and that I didn't like any of his friends. Last November, we had a real heart to heart discussion on this and I tried to explain to him that there were some great people, (a core group of great parents on our kid's hockey team) whom we'd hung out with from time to time and who I really would like to hang out with more. He told me that although he liked them, he did not feel comfortable around them because they were all older and he couldn't be himself. These people are all around my age, some maybe a couple of years older.

He is very heavily involved in the kids' hockey and it is a real bond that holds them together. So, fast forward to now, he has continued to build closer and closer bonds with this core group of parents and now does pretty much everything with them. I didn't see it all happening but over the past year, I have grown further and further away from these friendships as he has pushed his way right in there.

I'm not sure how to get back into this circle now and I really miss being as involved as I used to be. If anyone has advice on dealing with mutual friends that you have kind of grown away from, I'd really appreciate it.