Are best friends family to you?

[Anonymous]

Do you guys consider your very best friends as important as your family like your siblings for example?

[Anonymous]

No

[Anonymous]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

100%

[Anonymous]

Yes. Way better than my sibling. My kids call my best friend “aunt”. My sibling doesn’t even see us on holidays or know my kids names.

[Anonymous]

Why all these hierarchy and ranking and priority postings lately? I'm closer to friends than some family members, but still see family as family and friends as friends. That's not to say I wouldn't move heaven and Earth to help a friend in need, but if you're blood that's just a thing that a friend isn't.

[Anonymous]

I’m closer to my friends than my family, but family is still family and friends are friends. Family is more permanent, friendships can end.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely.

[Anonymous]

I'm an only child. I consider my 2 closest friends, whom I have known since my early teens, like family.

[Anonymous]

My best friends, yes. But these are 30 year friendships that have been each other’s side through some really horrific stuff.

DH’s best friendships are men he served with. He considers them bound by a sacred bond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m closer to my friends than my family, but family is still family and friends are friends. Family is more permanent, friendships can end.

That's false. Just look on DCUM plenty of people cut off blood family as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why all these hierarchy and ranking and priority postings lately? I'm closer to friends than some family members, but still see family as family and friends as friends. That's not to say I wouldn't move heaven and Earth to help a friend in need, but if you're blood that's just a thing that a friend isn't.

But shouldn't it be based on closeness and not blood?

[Anonymous]

Yes totally. I’m an only child. They’re better than family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why all these hierarchy and ranking and priority postings lately? I'm closer to friends than some family members, but still see family as family and friends as friends. That's not to say I wouldn't move heaven and Earth to help a friend in need, but if you're blood that's just a thing that a friend isn't.

But shouldn't it be based on closeness and not blood?

A friend falls out and moves away, you can never see or hear of them again. You see family at least at weddings, funerals, holidays, reunions, and hear about them from other family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why all these hierarchy and ranking and priority postings lately? I'm closer to friends than some family members, but still see family as family and friends as friends. That's not to say I wouldn't move heaven and Earth to help a friend in need, but if you're blood that's just a thing that a friend isn't.

But shouldn't it be based on closeness and not blood?

“Shouldn’t it”? As if there’s a right answer? As if it isn’t different for every person? By what unit measure are you measuring this “should”?!