I don't have a best friend..do you?

Bangton

I feel a bit abnormal...I have a handful of friends, I have a partner, a great family BUT I don't have a best girlfriend...someone I can talk to when I've rowed with the Mr (which is rare I suppose), someone I trust with everything....who I could turn to if my partner left me etc etc etc

Am I the only one without a best friend...?

moodydonkey

NO! I have never had one. I don't make friends for some reason

tanith

I have had 4 best female friends in my adult life, but have eventually grown apart from them all as their lives and mine changed/moved on. There isn't anything I wouldn't discuss with my OH so I guess he's been my best friend for the last 20yrs..

Slinky_Malinky

I don`t have one either. I have a group of friends from schooldays I meet up with every few months, but we are a group of five - two are very close sisters and two have been bezzie mates for years. In our younger days I always tended to have long term boyfriends when they were playing the field, plus my mum was always my best mate but we are no longer close. I miss the bond I used to have with my mum but I don`t think we can ever get it back on track tbh.

Although I have mates I would not trouble them in a crisis, nor would I confide any deep secrets.

I do wish I had a best friend, especially now I am divorced so do not have a partner either. Life can feel pretty lonely at times, it is not easy to make new friends in your forties.

Ich_2

As tanith above and certainly not in the area we live. I do have some of the opposite sex who live down south that I would trust with anything

dizziblonde

Nope - I've always been able to be quite content with my own company, and never had that need for a close female friendship... possibly because I was quite hideously bullied at an all-girls' school so saw womankind for its absolute worst from a very early age. My husband's my best friend, and I've got a few other close male friends I know I can always turn to.

Barneysmom

No I haven't and don't want one, not in real life.

My best friend was my brother's fiance, I confided in her when me and my ex-husband argued and I believed she was my friend.

She is now my ex-husband's wife.

Hey, they are welcome to each other

meritaten

I havent had a 'best' friend for twenty years - since my 'best' friend turned on me and physically attacked me for warning her that her 'secret affair' was common knowledge! I just cannot trust any one since - and keep myself to myself and my mouth firmly zipped!

scottishchick27

I have 5, we don't see or speak to each other daily but we're always there for each other when required.

~_Dragonfly_~

I have very few really close friends and to be honest with you it doesn't really bother me most of the time. I don't let people close to me easily but am friendly with lots of people.

I did have one girl best friend since we were about 13, she had a disability so felt she didn't fit in, I was very shy and felt the same so we got on well. Sadly last year she committed suicide one night.

I would say my partner is my best friend, but talking to a man about things is different than a woman in that way I always still wish I had her around. :A

ciderwithrosie_2

I've got a few really good friends (mainly through work and a couple who were neighbours with kids of similar ages) and one 'best' friend whose known me longest - 40 years. Don't see her very often now as we live 200 miles apart but that doesn't matter. When we do phone each other, we just pick up where we left off. She knows me better than I know myself, never judges, gives great advice, laughs at the same things, but couldn't organise a p*ss up in a brewery, or be on time for it and loves telling people she's just met embarrassing stories about me from our youth!