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How many good friends do you have?

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i'd say around 5 right now, there are other people i hang out with semi-regularly, but we're not that close or anything. honestly though i think considering anybody 'best' friends is stupid, and forces you to objectively rank people who are subjectively different.
 
are we talking, like, that I see every week? Or world wide?

world wide, I would say 6 really close friends, 10 other pretty good friends, and god only know how many acquaintances.

If I only consider people that live close enough to me to hang out with on a weekly basis, then 1 close friend, 2 other friends, and a couple guys work I'll have a few laughs with and have occasionally had a beer with.

I'm like the most anti social person ever, but people just like talking to me. I've never understood why. It is even so weird that I'll get comments from friends with me saying, 'wtf was up with that?'

example: the last time I went to the grocery store, this dude I had never seen before saw me pull some fridays quasedilla things out of the freezer and started up a conversation asking me all kinds of questions about em and how they were.
 
I actually have someone I'd consider my singular best friend nowadays, which I've never had and never really thought about before. Probably about five truly close friends, and then a larger community of once-every-two-weeks acquaintances. Pretty standard stuff.
 
I don't really have any good friends. I have some acquaintances but they are more like pals than friends. On second thought, I do have someone who could potentially be a good friend.
 
HomShaBom said:
I have no actual friends.
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Shoulda bought an Xbawx DAWG! :lol

I have a few. Problem is as life goes on the local economy continues to bottom out and crime increases, friends move farther and farther away from the city and we just fall out of contact. :\

Screw it. You break your back for friends and then they get all cunty. Who needs 'em?
 
I have a core group of about 12 really close friends. Some of them I've known since high school, some since college, and some since I moved back to Seattle after graduate school. We all try to get together at least once a week, have weekly dinner and movie nights, go camping, go drinking, and play together on local dodgeball/kickball/mini-golf teams.

When we go a week without seeing them, my wife and I start making comments about how we miss our friends, and the rest of our friends do the same.
 
Between two to five depending on how selective I am on what I call a "good friend."

I used to have more, but that's how life goes. I don't see any of my friends very often at the moment.
 
None really. I keep in contact with this girl I knew back from HS but even then we talk and see each other maybe once every two weeks, if that so she's more like a slightly more friendly acquaintance rather than an actual friend. Come to think of it I haven't had a good friend since I was 11 or 12 but that has more to do with me not opening up to other people and making them do all the work. I dunno, my family are the only friends I need really. Everyone else is a bonus.
 
I have tons of friends - but I'll honestly say that I have 2 really really good friends who you can talk real shit too.
 
Oh, gosh...

- Hal (my boyfriend)
- Roger
- Roger 2
- Robin
- Sister (best friend)

I think that's it. I'm not positive. I guess you can count every guy I have sex with a great friend.
 
Nick said:
Oh, gosh...

- Hal (my boyfriend)
- Roger
- Roger 2
- Robin
- Sister (best friend)

I think that's it. I'm not positive. I guess you can count every guy I have sex with a great friend.
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How many guys do you have sex with, keeping in mind you have a boyfriend?
 
5 really close, childhood friends. unfortunately i have almost nothing in common with them now. and our friendship at this level is the kind where i dont even see or call them for weeks, ie, everyone is fucking busy with their own lives, yet i know at the first sign of any trouble i could count on any of them.

aside from them...i've tried making new friends, and i'm pretty social, but the new york scene is very shallow for my tastes. so i've stopped trying to make new friends. you have to try too hard. ppl in general arent very sincere, or interested...everyone is friends as long as everyone is having a "good time". ie, partying. thats not real friendship to me.
 
I think a friendship is primarily built on trust. My friend, Scott, is like a brother to me and he has my back, no question. He'd do anything in his power to help me and he knows that the applies to me. He's just a genuinely good person that I can depend on. I don't trust many people, but he's definitely one of the few I do.

What is truly devastating is when you think you're friends with someone for 15 years and then they pull a vanishing act. Or when you're friends with someone and they fuck up their life to the point where you never see them again. Both have happened to me. Those people suck.
 
HomShaBom said:
I have no actual friends.
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Unfortunately this is my current situation but I'm not too distraught since I had a few friends in high school and are now simply starting over in college.
 
Hmm well my two of my best friend moved after 9 years state school. Now in high school I would say that I have 2 very good friends, and then a lot of other friends that I have no problems with whatsoever but that I just don't connect with as well as these two other guys. Like I don't talk about stuff that's too personally etc. etc.
 
I have about 15-20 good friends.

Personally, I define a good friend as someone who you could shoot the shit with all day and never think a second was boring. Someone who has your back (hoping it never gets to that) and isn't a POS who tries to hit on your girlfriend when you're not around. Then again, I lost a few supposedly good friends who tried some funny business when I wasn't around.

Some I've been good friends with for six months, others almost 10 years.

A friend to me is someone who is that but you don't know if they will have your back or will try to hit on your girlfriend. I got dozens of those. They come in and out of my life. College to me is pretty superficial. Most dudes just care about beer and pussy. So that means they don't mind sacrificing a friendship to get some. Good friends usually are in several situations where they could try to fuck my girlfriend but never try.

Acquaintances, I got hundreds no doubt. The thing is that whenever I see them, I say, "Hey, we should definitely party this weekend" but I never do. Its just a bad habit I picked up on.
 
I consider myself extremely lucky: I have probably 10 great friends, 5 awesome friends for whom I'd take a bullet and my girlfriend/best friend.
 
well, i don't have many friends period, since i have moved so many times in my life and i'm bad at keeping in touch with people.

i have one friend i've kept despite all the moving around, and i can tell him pretty much anything. and then, of course, my s.o. is my best friend :)
 
Like 2. There's a few others who claim to be my friend but I'm always the one to initiate contact so when I stopped IM'ing/calling we stopped talking.
 
Friends (people I went to school with for 14 years and we've hung out quite a bit): 250 or so
Good Friends: 60 or so
Great Friends: 10 or so
Best Friends: 3
 
Let me make a list:

My girlfriend
My best friend
My cousin
Two friends I met through my cousin
My other/female best-friend
Close girl-dash-friend
A good friend in L.A.
One of my brother's best-friends

And I think that's it.
 
0.

I kind of had one for a year or so, but he joined army. He was just a pretty good friend, though-- I haven't had a really good friend since jr. high :(
 
I really have no good friends. I have friends that I've known for a while and hang out with, but I've never had a friend that I'd considered closer to me than most people.
 
My best that goes to college 14 hours away.
My last ex.
My 2 that are still in HS.
My first girlfriend that goes to college back home.
My pretty much only friend in college so far that I know from intermediate school.
My once-best that goes to another uni in-state.

Those 6 I couldn't live without.

Then I have about 7 others that go to various colleges in-state that I don't get to talk to much, those I would consider my 'great' or 'close' friends. After that, a few more 'good' friends and then more that I sort of care about but will probably have very minimal contact with ever again.

It's interesting to me that only 4 of my close friends are guys and 9 are girls...I've found it easier to find genuine female friends than male friends.
 
My fiancee is my best friend. I have one very close friend in town, one very close friend who is in Army and in the desert right now, and one very close friend who I've only met over the internet. But those 4 are my core friends. I know lots of people and have other friends and acquaintances, including 2 on the cusp of very close friends who were work friends who moved away, but I mostly keep to myself.
 
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