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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to this article it is more common than we know: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-friendship-doctor/201009/the-dirty-little-secret-most-women-dont-talk-about

Friendships don't always last forever, and I am starting accept that just now. I have never had trouble making friends, but keeping the close, tight, best-friend bond after 8 years is not easy. I have one good friend from elementary school but there were long periods - like up to 5 years - where we were just not in contact at all because we had fallen out of touch.

But when I go to parties and I see men and women drinking with their best friends from high school, and they are all as close now as they were then, it stings me a little inside. Is this sincere, what I'm seeing? We are in our early thirties and you still say your friend from high school is your "BFF"? Haven't you grown or changed since then?

If we can admit that we out-grow relationships, why don't we admit that we out-grow friendships? A relationship is supposed to be an even more intimate bond than a friendship.

Just curious if I am alone in thinking about this topic.[/quote]

Many friendships don't last forever and many change over time, but that doesn't mean that people who have best friends since high school are insincere. I still have very close friendships with women from high school, college, and graduate school, and I'm almost 40.[/quote]

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