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How many GOOD friends do you have?

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  • Bikini27
    Bikini27 Posts: 1,290 Member
    One. And I would do the same for her.
    And then there's my mom, she's the other person I can depend on in any situation and who will always tell me the truth, even when it's hard to hear.

    I have a number of people I'm friendly with, a few I'd hang out with for any amount of time, but just the above two that I can go to with anything and everything.
  • Il_DaniD_lI
    Il_DaniD_lI Posts: 1,593 Member
    Locally - 0 :( I have 5 very good, best, awesome friends back home though.
  • maab_connor
    maab_connor Posts: 3,927 Member
    Locally, not including my hubs, I would say there are 4 I could call without hesitation that would bail me out of jail, help me change a tire, or fight zombies in the middle of the night. 2 more that aren't local, but would hop in a car or plane if I called and said, I realllly need you.

    And I would do the same for any of them.

    weird. i have exactly the same situation. one guy and one girl friend who are local and then one guy and my bestie who are each over a thousand miles away. if any of us picked up the phone for the others, we would drop EVERYTHING and go. thankfully, this has only been tested once. that's when i made it to NYC in two hours.
  • I would say 4. My two brothers are more like best friends. Something goes wrong, our fault or not. We are all there for each other. Besides them, I have two life long girlfriends that even tho we live states away from each other. When we do get together, its like we have never parted ways. I love friends like that.
  • fuhrmeister
    fuhrmeister Posts: 1,796 Member
    I would say 3 with 2 more people close behind.

    My husband
    My Bestfriend from right after college
    A friend I met a work a few years ago.

    The close behind people live further away and are harder to get in touch with but If somthing serious happened they would be on a plane in no time.
  • Sarahbara76
    Sarahbara76 Posts: 601 Member
    Mark is my oldest friend ( he is gay so my boyfriend is cool with it) Then Shellie, Kat and my sisters Crystal and Leah and even though my boyfriend hates it a couple of my exes are true friends and I rarely ever see an ex in person.
    But really I spend very little face to face time with any of them, I am OK with it too, I work so much I don't have a lot of extra time to play with. When we do get together it's like no time has passed.
    My boyfriend and I hang out the most and even tho he wants me to tell him everything I can't tell him everything. It's tough but that's the way it is.
  • Michele7091
    Michele7091 Posts: 256 Member
    Not counting family, two.
  • TheWinman
    TheWinman Posts: 684 Member
    about 12, most; of them go back to my high school and college years. We are all very close.
  • galegetsthin
    galegetsthin Posts: 1,340 Member
    I dont even have family that will count........ FML.

    can't count my bf, cant count family, no real friends........all my friends live in distant parts of the country/world, so even though I can call and talk to a handful of people, I cant *TRULY* count on them for things like bail, car problems, spider killing......
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I don't think I could count them, honestly. I have never been very good at choosing boyfriends, but I have a knack for choosing very wonderful friends and have been sort of "collecting" them literally since preschool.

    I've known my best friend since she was 3 months and I was about 2 and out families are close, so she's more like a sister than a friend. I'd turn to her before anyone, but I have about 100 backups, at least!

    Just in the city where I've lived the last five years, I can think of six offhand and a couple who just recently moved away.
  • crazytreelady
    crazytreelady Posts: 752 Member
    Does my dog count???

    No seriously.. I have like three **tops and we never really see each other too much.

    I'm not a big people person.
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
    I have one, my husband. He's the only one I can truly rely on.
  • lorac321
    lorac321 Posts: 614 Member
    I actually have few...

    Number one, my husband.
    My ex brother in law
    My step son
    3 local girlfriends / 1 in WI
  • vim_n_vigor
    vim_n_vigor Posts: 4,089 Member
    I would say that I have more GOOD friends here than in real life. There are a few really close ones that live close.
  • CoryIda
    CoryIda Posts: 7,870 Member
    I don't have any in real life.

    I was married to my best friend and, although I still admire him as a person a lot, divorcing him (naturally) caused that to change.

    I am very fortunate to have a great support system on here (one or two who are especially awesome), which helps, and I am going to try to BE a better friend in real life going forward so that I can HAVE better friends.
  • I would say three: I go to school with two of them and the third I met in middle school and even though he lives in another state, we still talk a lot :)
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    1. My husband, of course. He is an amazing man that I can confide in.
    2. My best friend of 9 years, Britni. We met in undergrad, and she's awesome. She knows way too much about me, but unfortunately, she lives in Chicago, while I am in Miami :(
    3. My (local) best friend Holly, who is so awesome words cannot describe it.
    4. My contractor and very good friend Robert who always answers when I call about stupid house projects I do not know how to do. He's always honest with me about that stuff. His wife and daughter are really great people too.
  • Laura_Suzie
    Laura_Suzie Posts: 1,288 Member
    I only have one really, really good friend. I have others that I'm close to or hang out with occasionally, but I only have one best friend who I tell things to that I've never even told my own parents. She's like a sister to me and she is moving to San Diego for college in a few months. :(
  • Mrsfullwood
    Mrsfullwood Posts: 172 Member
    Just one...My husband.
  • lau444
    lau444 Posts: 120 Member
    5 (including my sister). I'm blessed to say that I am 25 and have had the same friends since I was in elementary school.
  • _GlaDOS_
    _GlaDOS_ Posts: 1,520 Member
    Three. My dad, my boyfriend, and my best friend of about 12 years.
  • ampa916
    ampa916 Posts: 189 Member
    I only have person that I can count on right now (aside from my parents) and that is my husband. I used to have a really good friend who I didn't need to talk to everyday and we just got along, she was literally my other half. But I moved away after I got married and while we still talk there is just no way I can depend on her cause of the distance.
  • DizzyLinds
    DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
    5 max
  • jenj1313
    jenj1313 Posts: 898 Member
    2 really good ones that I could count on for anything, one pretty good one that would do most anything, and my boyfriend who I think would still help even if we weren't dating, but it's hard to say ;-p
  • MyFeistyEvolution
    MyFeistyEvolution Posts: 1,014 Member
    Hmm Definitely my husband...no matter how bad I eff up, he always is kind.

    My friend Heather, for sure. Jess, absolutely. Those two I know would drop everything if I truly needed them.

    I have a few other close friends but their lives are a bit dramatic and hectic.
  • rbn_held
    rbn_held Posts: 692 Member
    2. One I have known for over 15 years and another for about 4. I moved out of state so I don't get to talk to them as much as I used to but I know I can count on them whenever I need anything or just need to talk.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    5... if you count my sister.
  • AlicynH
    AlicynH Posts: 201 Member
    I have one. He's been my best friend for 15+ years now. We talk about everything. We just have this connection, I can be thinking about him and he'll call or vice versa. I do have other friends, but no one a close as him.
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    Let's see. Wife and daughters make 4. Among the dozens of people I ride with, work with play soccer with there are probably half a dozen more that I would trust with my Daughters and my Wife and my money or my life.
  • Saruman_w
    Saruman_w Posts: 1,531 Member
    Hmm.. ya know what? I don't think I even have any. Not IRL ones anyway. The rest are too far away :(
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