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Are you still close with your childhood friends?
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Absolutely! I am in regular contact with 2 woman (met in kindergarten and Gr. 2) and 2 men (met in Gr. 3 and Gr. 6) and several HS friends. Don't keep in touch with really any college friends - well, except the one I married!
The nice thing is these old friends are the ones where we can pick up after a long time away and fall right back into place. College friends are less forgiving in that sense. I think older friends have more "history" that keeps us tight. Another thing is the elementary school friends is that we were all in the same class at our parochial school for many years so we became very close. |
Anonymous
This. I grew up in three different countries - Middle East until 5th grade, South East Asia for middle school and U.S. after that. I lost touch with my childhood (elementary age) friends a long, long time ago but have since found a few of them on FB. I recently met up with friend who I had met when I was 5 when she was in town for a cousin's wedding and it was as if we had never lost touch. No awkwardness, nothing! It was pretty great. She lives in Canada so I won't be seeing her again that often, but we are pretty good FB friends. My current closest friends are ones from college. Unfortunately they are all in the Midwest and I'm here. I miss them terribly. I don't have any close friends here 
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Anonymous
| I'm still close with the majority of my high school friends, many of whom I've actually been friends with since pre-school or primary school. Grew up in a smallish town (10k people) with only one school system so we were all always together. It helps that most all of our parents are still in that town, about half my old friends are still there, and we're religious about planning get-togethers around the holidays when we're home visiting family and visit each other other times of year. We're in our early 30s now. The 'group' of us with husbands, wives, etc. is over 20 people. I love it. My college friends, on the other hand, evolved into just facebook friends. |
Anonymous
| I'm still close friends with one of them, and pretty close friends with two others. A few more are "catch up on facebook and have coffee when we're in the same town" friends. I moved to DC from the midwest 20 years ago, so it's hard to maintain "close" friendships with people you maybe see once a year. I'm still close with college friends and have made plenty of friends post-college, so it's all good. |
Anonymous
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I wish but we have diverged greatly in almost every aspect of our life. Of the core group of close friends, almost all of them have become uber devout Catholics. I have gone the other way. Fine. But the attempts to proselytize and "bring me back" to the church have gone beyond the lines of acceptable and continued when I've pleased asked them stop.
I respect their views; they do not respect mine. That has not made things easy. We are mostly FB friends, now. |
Anonymous
| in touch with two friends from childhood but not in very frequent touch. best friends with college friends. talk to them every week. we're all best friends with each other too so it's a small group of us who are very connected. we don't live in the same city but we all get together every year at least once. some other very close friends from graduate school and work. |
Anonymous
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I had a good guy friend in MS and HS. Our friendship waxed and waned throughout those years. There were semesters we barely spoke, and semesters we'd see each other every day. We had a little mild, early physical experimentation together (smoochin') but never really hooked up. We went our separate ways for college, his parents moved away from our hometown. But throughout the years, I was always able to rely on a long newsy email exchange a couple times a year, a visit whenever we happened to be in the same town, etc. Like PP said, we always just seemed to pick up where we left off. Now, with facebook, we're closer than we've been since our teens.
He's my closest, oldest friend. All the others have come into my life since grad school and later. Oddly, none of my college friendships "stuck" at all, even though at the time I would have declared "best friends forEVER!" |
Anonymous
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I'm still Facebook friends with some high school people, but we're not close. The only high school friend I remained in regular contact with over the years became an increasingly vapid & unstable "shopaholic" as she grew desperate to get married in her late 20s. By the time she turned 30, she was a complete trainwreck -- she attempted to be a prostitute despite making over 75K/yr at her day job ("attempt" because she couldn't get any clients), frequently picked fights with friends and coworkers, and finally moved back in with her mother (whom she had never gotten along with) after she quit her job without notice.
I am still close friends with both of my college roommates. We talk nearly every day. Sadly, I did not gain any friends from law school, but I"m not sure if that's uncommon, hehe. |
Anonymous
| Are you for real 23:11? Methinks not. But maybe you are?? |
Anonymous
| PP here... I'm for real, sadly. There's a back story to that, though. She was abused by her parents pretty badly as a child. |
Anonymous
| (which is why I was surprised when she moved back in with her mother... why would anyone move back in with her abuser?) |
Anonymous
| FB brought me back some close friends from HS. We all live in different cities and countries, but we are, oddly, very close now. We chat on FB and email each other things. I feel relieved to have them back. |
Anonymous
I've known my BFF for 20 yrs now. We met in 5th grade and we still talk at least once a week 
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Anonymous
| High school friends, but not any earlier in life. |
Anonymous
| No. I'm only close to one of my college friends, also. I'm just at a transition point in life and have little in common with many of my old friends. Many of them are sending kids to college, and I have two small children! They've BTDT, and are now going back to work FT, taking cool trips, etc. - all the things I did while they were raising their kids ;-0) I've BTDT too. |