I have a group of friends and we've been a group for a while but some of us have started to distance (one guy is getting engaged, another has joined his bf's friend group, etc.) so I kind of separated my friend group into sections- close friends (the ones I can feel that I can drop my guard around), close-ish friends (the ones I can tell a little bit more about what's going on) and the peripheral friends (just like chilling together and don't talk about any of the deep stuff).

The last 5 years have been an absolute disaster but three of the friends have been there. I think just how bad things gotten really showed who your true brothers in arms are and who's just a friend in name.

Our friend group (all 3 categories) usually do birthdays together but this year I'd like to have one with just my brothers in arms privately then another one with everybody else.

WIBTH for having an exclusive party?