How many "BFFs" do you have?

[2boys2danes]

And how long have you been friends? Do they live near you now or no?

Me -- Wubby from college -- friends for almost 30 years now....she lives in PA and I'm in TN
        Jane met in my MBA program -- friends for almost 25 years....she lives in St Louis where i was raised
        Pam - first friend I met when I moved to Memphis in 1992...lives in same town as me
        Melissa - friends from work in 1996 and she has worked with me again for the last 5 years
        Trina - next door neighbor for last 9 years....moving to Chicago in a month


I dont know what I'd do without these crazy gals!  How about you?  Are your friends high maintenance or low?


    

[TrickyBob]

1. She lives 2 seconds down the street from me and she is amazing. We recently became friends, as in the past 3 or so months.

My old best friend has been ignoring me and we live 2 hours apart, I don't know what I did wrong and I don't understand why she won't get in touch with me again. It makes me sad. We have known each other for 4 years now. 

I do have some really good friends from HS, but none that I would consider best friend forever kind. 

[CurlyQ284]

2, they are cousins so they are close to each other as well.

[luckyval]

4 :

Lien and I have been bffs for 13 years, we met working at a restaurant together the same time I met H. We lived in different states and after she got divorced she and her daughter moved in with us . They now live 5 minutes away

Becky is my sil and I absolutely adore her. She lives 20 minutes away

Lisa and her late H met us shortly after we got married. We were swingers together and did a lot of traveling. Awesomely fun girl and H and I are absolutely broken hearted by her husband's death. She lives in the next state over



Monica, another swinger friend. H is equally close with her H. They are so low key, intelligent and zero bull shit. Love to just sit on the deck, drink and cut up, they live about 15 minutes away. We've known each other for 4 years

[daisybuchannan]

4- we're a group from college. Love my girls!

[joshlyman]

3. And those 3 are really my only friends. All of whom I have known 10+ years - one since we were 6.

I have other acquaintances, and I am close with the families of these friends too, but they are the only people I call to actually hang out.

Oops, forgot to add that we all live within 10 miles of each other I don't know what I would have done without them close by while going through all this divorce shit. They really are family to me.

[luckyval]

Yes - have been for around 10 years

[discogranny]

Four:

R - We met in 9th grade Biology and still get together at least twice a month. We talk on the phone for an hour plus once or twice weekly. She lives 30 min. away.

J - We met 8 years ago at my first "big girl job", she lives 5 min away and I see her 3+ times weekly as she is my running partner as well as my lets go shopping and get margaritas on a Wednesday friend.

A and K - We met on The Knot while planning our weddings and have grown very close. We see each other once a month and chat online/text weekly. Both live about an hour from me.

I seriously would be a puddle on the floor right now if these four had not held me up during IVF and the subsequent loss. I am so blessed to have each of them in my life. All are low maintenance. Thank god!

[angelaa73]

my main lylas is Janie. I have very very close friends that have, like, the keys to my house and we've known each other for decades. So, in total, 7

[luckyval]

Apr 3, 2013 21:23:36 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

We're the type of friends that can go a couple month without talking, then one day one of us calls each other and we pick up right where we left off. I know that no matter how long either of us goes without talking, we would be there for each other in a heartbeat if either of us needed the other..

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That's the best kind of friend : )

[angelaa73]

Apr 3, 2013 21:25:56 GMT -5 Que? said:

Apr 3, 2013 21:23:16 GMT -5 luckyval said:

Yes - have been for around 10 years

I'm conflicted. I've always had a little crush on you, now I'm afraid of my own feelings, lol.

I feel like this has been discussed here before but then I forgot.

oh god heere we go again. why do we beat this to death every 9 months. luckyval JUST PUT IT IN YOUR SIG!

[luckyval]

Apr 3, 2013 21:25:22 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

Apr 3, 2013 21:23:16 GMT -5 luckyval said:

Yes - have been for around 10 years

That's fascinating!  Do you ever get jealous?  Lol, and is that the most asked question you get when you tell someone you swing?

Jealousy isn't an issue. What H and I have is different and more significant from what we have with other couples

I can't say I get that question a lot because being a swinger doesn't come up in conversation with Camilla's URL, lol

[luckyval]

Apr 3, 2013 21:27:27 GMT -5 angelaa73 said:

Apr 3, 2013 21:25:56 GMT -5 Que? said:

I'm conflicted. I've always had a little crush on you, now I'm afraid of my own feelings, lol.

I feel like this has been discussed here before but then I forgot.

oh god heere we go again. why do we beat this to death every 9 months. luckyval JUST PUT IT IN YOUR SIG!

We need a badge for this

[angelaa73]

i;m just fucking with you que. i love how you "forget" why you like lucky so much. hmmmmmm
tendencies? hmmmmm?

hahahahhah j/k!!

[pantsparty]

Apr 3, 2013 21:01:12 GMT -5 mofongo said:

Honestly, quite a few. I'm very lucky! I went to a very small grammar school and also a small high school. I grew up in the church as well, so I made a lot of lifelong friendships at those places. I picked up a few in college/grad school and a few more as an adult. They are kind of broken up into different groups of 3/4 but they all know each other.


Oh edit: Very low maintenance, the friendships are easy.

WOW! I bet you've been in a lot of weddings!!!

[Deleted]

None?

I have friends.

But I don't have a best friend, unless you let me count my husband or brother.

[pantsparty]

I am very curious as to how swingers get started, per se. Forums? Just start winking at attractive people? WHAT?

[pantsparty]

I have some very close friends, but I don't know if I necessarily have a best friend. I guess I don't. I mean, I'd know if I did, right? Right.

My H is kind of my best friend. 

[azurely]

Two.

K - we have been friends since elementary school and BFF since high school. We are still very close and live five min apart.

L - we were BFF in college and we're still close, but don't see each other as much anymore, since she lives 3 hours away. We have drifted apart a little... It makes me sad

[meganew]

6 very close girls from college, 5 or more city friends from the past four years, and my high school crew of dudes who I still hang with. We've basically all married eachothers friends, we're all super close and over sharers and drinkers and I'm fully aware of how lucky I am that my kid will grow up thinking he has 10 aunts and 7 uncles.

They're very low maintenance for the most part!