My biggest problem with family and even the wife is riding at night. People just don't think it is possible/safe so they tend not to invite you to things because you'd have to ride at night.
Don't have any friends besides work chums but they are work only chums. They still wonder how I can ride my bike at night and not run into a tree. I try to explain to them the same way they drive a car and don't run into a tree but it doesn't seem to get through.
Most of them also view it as something someone does when they have no other option at all and they don't want to remind you of your misfortune. Heck sometimes I think the reason my in-laws left their car at my house so long wasn't so they'd have it down here when they flew down to visit again. It was so I could drive it if I needed it. They made the offer constantly though I never took them up on it.