Kofod wrote:Suchomimus wrote:Kofod wrote:
I have some 'categories' for my friends:
- I have one friend I met in I think 5th grade, we rarely talk anymore bc we have so vastly different lives and lifestyles. When we do hangout usually we watch horror movies.
- I have some friends I got when I was 14/15, met through a boarding school. Very chill people, most of those friends I rarely talk too as well, but three of them I see a few times a year. One of them is my best friend. We have two get-togethers a year, one for summer and one for Christmas. We also hang out in smaller groups too. My best friend, well we do all sorts of stuff together. We play games (video, computer, board, you name it) we go for walks and talk, we get funny ideas and drag each other along.
Another friend from that group, we love playing Escape Rooms, and then we have a tradition where we watch 'a nightmare before Christmas' every year around Halloween (other movies have been added to the tradition since...)
- I have a discord friend group, most of us have met IRL (my bf I met through this group) it consists of a bunch of people who knew each other through different things. I.e. my one boarding school friend, it's her bf and his boarding school friends who created the discord. And then ppl just got added gradually.
It was created during corona, and things just developed from there. Can't say what we do together because it varies so much depending on whom are together. I.e. my best friend, one of the discord server members and I are really close and hang out a lot. We tend to be creative a lots watch horrors, play video games, do plant stuff etc together.
- Then I have my friends from my current education. We mostly just hang out, and eat. Well one of them I tend to rant with a lot. Her car has become a trauma dumping place.
I can't really say how much I see each and everyone because it varies so much. My uni friends I see as often as possible (we aren't in the same class anymore so yeah) but right now we are on internship so we don't see each other at all.
Some friends I see once a year, others I see regularly. It depends a lot...
Most of them I'm in contact with regularly, but sometimes we can also go months without speaking at all.
The ones I play video games with, and know through discord, I am sometimes in voice chat with. This is only when we game, bc generally I hate phone calls and the like (voice calls to me are basically just phone calls and I'm not in them to just hang and do nothing. It needs a purpose)
I'm not super physically affectionate. I don't like it, it can make me quite anxious.
My best friend and I can me (my bf too, obviously but I don't count him in here) but it's kinda in an ironic way? If that makes sense. My bf even calls my best friend, my wife so yeah...
As for my friend's relationships, I do not mind at all. I can be against it, if I don't think the relationship is healthy or good. But generally I support my friends's relations.
Generally I think we support each other. Well of course it depends on the relation. I have friends whom I would not turn to when times a rough, because I have closer friends for that.
And the same goes the opposite way. While I'm sure my friends know they can come to me when they need comforting, I'm definitely not the first they go to (for some I am absolutely one of the first ones, but not for all) and that works.
All friendships have issues,and that's fine. I.e. I have this friend group rn where we can never find time for each other because my one friends is always busy, and I too am very busy, leaving the third party just... Waiting to spend time with both of us. It's great, but we try to plan our way through it.
And to answer the last question, I used to get jealous of my best friend easily, I think it was due to her great talents and likable personality (I've always been a bit more uuh blant, and a person who seemed more distant?) I've mostly grown out of that, and appreciate her so much more than I did as a teen.
Yes sometimes I wish I was more like her, but not in the same way I did when we were younger?
I hope that answered everything?
do u still enjoy being friends with ur 5th grade friend?
woah u have a lot going on!

do u get overwhelmed?
and everything is fine even though u haven't spoken in months? they're not upset with u?
hehe ur wife that's cute :3
ohhh i relate to this kind of jealousy a lot
i feel like I'm not interesting enough to be friends with yknow..
did u do anything to get over that? or it just happened with time?
very helpful, thank u!!
I do, though tbf my brother sees my friend more than I do. Probably due to them living in the same city and both being party people.
I do get overwhelmed often, since all friend groups try to put a claim on my time at least a few times a month, and that's just not an option...
But we are all people who have a lot going on, none of us live close to each other so it works fine to not see each other too often. It's mainly my uni friends who wants to see me all the time, but I tend to prioritize my other friends, solemnly because it's rarely possible to see all my other friends.
We probably would get married, platonically, if my bf and I someday broke up. Just because we don't really want to both with romantic stuff (I'm surprised I even happened to fall for my bf, but somehow that happened years into friendship and here we are sharing an apartment)
I don't think you ever get over that, but I don't really know? I just try to push the thought. When I was younger I used to have to push for all my friendships and be the one to make plans. Somehow I don't always have to anymore and it's great. Yet there's still a voice in the back of my mind saying "what if?"
Most of the time I just push it away, and tell myself that if my friends seek my company that must mean there's at least something to like. Just remember that sometimes you have to be the one to push (not always, but sometimes)
so they are friends too then?