Are you still friends with any of your childhood friends? (2 Viewers)

[DaveXA]

Something else I’m realizing
I have never been one to feel (or be part of a) ‘bros before the word that rhymes with bros that indicates women you’re romantically interested in’
My romantic relationships have always taken precedence

Same here. I'm pretty much a homebody and I'm happy spending the rest of my life with wife at home and we do stuff together more often than not.

 

[sfidc3]

I consider myself lucky to have friends now and in the past who are close enough to cry over.

Same here, when we met up last summer for a beer I was visiting my friend I referenced.....I just remembered that now.....Cheers mate....

 

[saintmdterps]

Same here, when we met up last summer for a beer I was visiting my friend I referenced.....I just remembered that now.....Cheers mate....

Cheers to you, my brother!

 

[Optimus Prime]

Something else I’m realizing
I have never been one to feel (or be part of a) ‘bros before the word that rhymes with bros that indicates women you’re romantically interested in’
My romantic relationships have always taken precedence

think that saying has been more of a high school, college, maybe early 20s thing

And it seems that the guys that used it were mostly of the dudebro, clubbing/bar hopping variety

 

[DaveXA]

think that saying has been more of a high school, college, maybe early 20s thing

And it seems that the guys that used it were mostly of the dudebro, clubbing/bar hopping variety

Yea, pretty much.

 

[Cage1]

Somewhat relevant, I haven’t made a new friend in 12 years. And before that, it was about 11 years. As a dude, it’s tough to make friends as adults. It’s like this guy seems okay but then he likes Nickelback or the Cowboys or something and you gotta start over.

 

[DCSaints_Fan]

I don't have any friends

 

[zeetes]

yes, and no. i want to lie and say that i talk to my bff on occasion, but it is far less common than that. we are still very close, no matter how much we rarely interact. i'd 100% ride or die. also, pretty much 100% on me. i can't even explain why, i truly don't know. very much sucks.

matt. the timing of the last time we really got back to talking, after almost 20 years, and just as quickly, both of us experienced our spouses diagnosed with pure evil. now, it's a very unenthusiastic hi.

my highschool roommate, compadre, wrecking crew. common theme, i don't talk to many people regularly. that said, i heard from him a few months ago and was ecstatic. i'll say military school and it wasn't pleasant.

i'm high, emotional, and yeah, i'll probably delete tomorrow.

 

[boutte]

I don't have any friends

You lack imagination.

 

[SWJJ]

Somewhat relevant, I haven’t made a new friend in 12 years. And before that, it was about 11 years. As a dude, it’s tough to make friends as adults. It’s like this guy seems okay but then he likes Nickelback or the Cowboys or something and you gotta start over.

When I started playing tennis a couple years ago I made a ton of new friends. I don't watch football with my tennis friends so it doesn't matter if they are a cowboys fan.

 

[Optimus Prime]

We moved from Baltimore to Salisbury when I was 14, so two groups of friends. I have one friend here I’ve been close with for 45 years since high school and college. We were in each others weddings, held each others kids the day they were born, and held each other as we cried the day each of my parents died and his mom died. We’re still very close and drink beer together frequently.

I stayed close with my friends in Baltimore for 3 years after we moved, as we frequently returned to visit. One day in October 1978 I came home from school to find my mom very upset “Craig was killed in a car accident last night” he was my closest friend. my dad came home from work and held me as I cried. Shortly thereafter we called his parents and my folks offered their sympathies. It was my turn. “I’m so sorry to hear about Craig” was all I could say “I know you are Michael, I know you are” his mom said. I will never forget that call.

There were 6 people in the car that night, and 5 were killed. It ripped the close-knit neighborhood apart. Another friend who lived across the street from my buddy said years later it was the worst night of his life.

I consider myself lucky to have friends now and in the past who are close enough to cry over.

If you don’t mind my asking did you stay in touch with his parents?

I knew someone in a similar situation, he was over at their house so much he was almost like another son, after the friend died he still went to visit about once a week or so until they moved

Don’t know if he remained in contact after that

 

[saintmdterps]

If you don’t mind my asking did you stay in touch with his parents?

I knew someone in a similar situation, he was over at their house so much he was almost like another son, after the friend died he still went to visit about once a week or so until they moved

Don’t know if he remained in contact after that

No, unfortunately we all lost touch with them. Craig’s father would walk the streets of the neighborhood at all hours because he couldn’t sleep. Shortly afterward the family moved. They told neighbors there were just too many memories. My father tried to get in touch but couldn’t find them. I think in order to deal with the loss they cut all ties with the old neighborhood.

I tried through social media, as that medium came of age, to contact Craig’s sister and parents. Everything came to a dead end and I decided it was a message from the Fates to let that sleeping dog lie.

 

[Madmarsha]

Those losers? None of them will talk to me. I have no idea why.



You know I'm kidding, right?

 

[Nisey55]

Not a friend but a cousin that I hadn't talked to or seen in over 20 years, we had been texting over the last few months because his Mom was sick and eventually passed, I was his "could you relay the message to the aunts?" contact.
Anyway, last week we wanted to take a little vacation to higher altitudes and stopped in Hot Springs to visit him and his wife, it was as if that 20 years never existed and the only thing that changed were some wrinkles and gray hair.
The whole thing makes me want to see all the other relatives that have fallen by the wayside.

 

[Semper]

I never went to the same school 2 years in a row until 8th and 9th grade. I have a couple “friends” but I thought I had a best friend for most of my life from 8th grade on. But something changed a couple years ago and I am not sure of the shift. Jim and I still talk on the phone 2 or 3 times a week but it isn’t the same. I tried to talk about it but he doesn’t agree. I did recently find out he takes a drug to level himself out, no highs and no lows. He suggested I try it because I was stressed about leaving my dog while I was on vacation. I think this could be part of it but I don’t know.

I do have my best friend since he was born and that’s my little brother. We were all we had when we were little and moved constantly, living in cheap hotels etc. In school we drifted apart once we settled into a real life. But the last 20 years or so we got close again. We text all the time, talk on the phone once a day, and play Call of Duty almost every night. We share a lot of the same hobbies, guns, cigars, bourbon.

My wife is also there. Beyond that I think everyone is kept at a distance. Because of this years between 3 and 12 I learned not to trust, keep people at a distance, including family. The strange thing is there is a desire for more friends, for instance I am in a motorcycle club but I do the same distance thing.