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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Phone calls, trips together, and messages are what I use. [/quote]

How often?[/quote]

I'm PP. My best friend of 30+ years lives four hours away from me and is a school teacher. Sometimes in the warmer months we will walk and talk in the early morning before she gets ready for work, in the colder months we will talk in the evenings, generally while watching kids' sports practices. We also connect pretty much every weekend while doing something like folding laundry, prepping food, etc. - an activity that we need our hands but not really our brains for. She and I also try to see each other 4 times a year, sometimes I'll go there, sometimes she'll come here, sometimes our kids' sports events will bring us to close to each other and we can meet up for a family dinner. Sometimes we get together with just the two of us, no kids. She's not a big texter but I'd say we probably text once a week about something light (a Bravo show we're watching, a funny meme, something one of her students said that was cute, etc.).

My college girlfriends and I have a pretty active text chain filled with both light-hearted texts and also serious ones (one of them just found out her cancer had returned). We are spread out across two states (about 3-4 hours apart for all of us) so we try to get together in person 3-4 times a year. One of them is a pretty big phone talker so I tend to call her whenever I am in the car alone (which is shockingly infrequent because I work from home). I do have separate text chains with all of them plus the group text (we don't talk about the others on the separate chains, but there are sometimes things I'll discuss with one of them versus all of them).

My local friends for whatever reason have the most active text chains. Maybe because we see each other more often? In warmer weather months, and especially in the summer when the kids aren't in school (although we all work), we see each other multiple times a week because we'll meet up for tennis, pool, BBQs, etc. In winter we still see each other in person at least once a week (not everyone all the time, obviously, but a group of us). I have multiple text chains with the large group and then we have a ton of splinter groups based on varying interests/friendships.

Friendships take work, but I'm so grateful that I have decades-old friends who are willing to put in the investment, as am I.[/quote]

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