How many close friends do you have?

I have some close friends, most of which came to me from school. The closest is the one I knew from junior high school. She is smart and funny and truly open-minded. Her personalities really go hand-in-hand with mine. We have never complained about each other.

Another one is a younger girl than me. She is gentle and tolerant, and we have a lot of things in common. The only thing I don’t like is that we live so far away from each other.

There are some more but they are not as close as those two. But we are still close.

My closest circle amounts to four.

”How many close friends do you have that you can hang out with on a regular basis?”

Hmmmm? Not family, no acquaintances, no casual friends… that would be zero.

cool…. I hope more answers come…

But to add to the above.. well I am in my thirties and I have even found that when I get to really know people that are really social and outgoing they would confide in me that they only consider 1 or two people their real friends. However on the surface they seem like they have tons of friends but it apparently was more like acquaintances or business associates/colleagues.

I even had a guy who was a divorced 40 year old look back on his life and say to me that he had 250 people at his wedding but when he looks back now… very few of them were actually his good friends. They were more like people he just knew. .. It kinda made me sad when he said that…. but it is so true for many people.

hmmm….

I would have to say 2, that would be there for me and I for them.

I have five people who I am close to.

The newest is the mom of my daughter’s friends.

To me, frequency of hanging out has nothing to do with what makes these good friends.

Apart from some friends I see now and again, NO close friends at all. I have a good relationship with relatives/family and spouse but I don’t wish for an extremely close friendship. Other than those social contacts I prefer not to open up more.

Hi,Thanks for sharing this post.I am an engineering student & i have to communicate with so many people & classmate & seniors in my university.Leaving my family,I have to stay here for my study.Here I have so many friends.But I have 2 special friends & they are very close to me.I can share my everything with them.I really love them.Without them I can’t study here.

I can count three people besides family who I would trust with my life and my fortune, or what I like to call the hole-in-the-water-in-which-I-pour-money-into-i.e.-the-boat, The Powhattan tribe have a word for it. It’s pronounced something like o͞o-gǒt-tah-be-fucking-nutz. Anyway. 3. Two of them go back to the early 70’s, the other one the 1990’s. I have many others, but these are close.

I have two really close friends that I have known since college. We can go for years without seeing each other but with one phone call or email can connect from the heart immediately. Lately we have been getting together about once per year. It is great.

We’d do anything for each other. Just ask.

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Before I moved there were two people who I hung out with pretty much every weekend.

I’d say 4. My boyfriend Matt, my best friend since age 3 (who has been geographically distant for the past 5 years, but that barely changes anything really) and both members of another couple that Matt and I are very close with.

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There were three kids from one family that I truly clicked with as a kid . . . until their dad got transferred to another state in 1965. There really hasn’t been anyone since then.

One close friend of the last 10 years and my daughter.

Several other casual friends, but I cleaned house a lot in the last decade or so and let go of quite a few people of whom the relationships were no longer working for me. It’s an age thing yes, the older I get the less I am interested in maintaining relationships that have outlived their shelf lives or, worse yet, have become toxic. I have let go of 4 long term friends since about 2006. 2 were emotionally exhausting and hyper sensitive, read: high maintenance, one was manipulative and unable to handle a confrontation and another was a gold digging bitch that was working her husband to death to keep her in horses and Hummers. See ya. haha

I move on easily, when I am done I am done, no regrets, no looking back, I’m a future oriented type and have no problem letting go of the past. I also love my own company and have lived in peaceful rural areas on acreage for years. I am just fine, inspite of having an extroverted personality, with being by myself. If someone does not really interest me I prefer solitude to disingenuity.

I have about 6 close friends and four or five other fairly close friends. I am very lucky in the friends department.

I have Many acquaintance’s but my real and true friends i can count on one hand and with those the friendship is so solid we are like sisters.

I’ve always had 5 or less… still do… same ones even.

i don’t have any real life close friends.im pretty much by myself 95% of the time.

I would say 2.