I have a friend group for 25 years, I will be 33 this year.
It’s always sad to read replies to posts like these with people saying they have no friends.
And since I am a guy I can literally not talk to some of them for months and just literally pickup where we left off and talk for hours without it feeling awkward, forced whatever
Why is it sad? It is just modern fact of life that each person is alone.
I’m in my 40s and have multiple long-standing circles of friends going back decades (each with their own group chat). I even made new friends recently through channels other than my existing friends (started going to local fighting game community events).
I definitely feel bad for the people who talk about have very few or even no choose friends and seem to frame it as some kind of inevitability that comes with adulthood. Life without my friends would absolutely be a lot worse.
And since I am a guy
Just using your post as a springboard to get all 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
but I wonder how much of the idea of “women’s friendships decay, men’s friendships can pick up exactly where they left off” is based on reality… And how much of it is just a stereotype based on social norms that are no longer true. Y’know, like the idea that “women have naturally better emotional intelligence” (the reality is that most young boys were and on some level still are discouraged from engaging with emotions in general, and it’s hard to get good at something with no practice)
I can’t even cite personal anecdotal experience as an argument for or against because my friendship group is mostly queer dudes with the occasional transgender chick or enby person.
Same here, not a chat for that many years though
I have a group chat going with my best friends, on Signal too.
It’s a great place to share the memes, news etc we find. Also some discussions once in a while and planning to meet.
You guys have friends?
Funny that
I wouldn’t have made it to adulthood without my friend circle. I’d have ragequit life long ago.
The little groupchat of funny internet nerds I built up over these past 15 years is my entire backbone.
Nothing lasts forever, don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
The first step to lasting friendships is not being a lil’ bitch.
Are you sure they don’t know each other?
Maybe they are in their own chat talking shit about you?
I KNEW IT!!
Then you absolutely need a group chat for both of them to get acquainted so they can hate the experience and individually ghost you as a result.
I’ll be honest, none of my friends would get along with each other.
One friend and I make more than the other 3 combined. One friend has so many things he does and groups of friends I don’t know, so I don’t get to hang out with him much. Another friend is all the nuerodivergence, intelligent, but a filterless activist and who really could choose her battles better. The last friend can be overwhelming to talk to.
Having them in a group would just ruin it
Username checks out so hard LOL.
It’s a hard fact of life that friendship compatibility isn’t a transitive property. I lament that differing people I like to hang out with, likely wouldn’t wanna hang out with each other.
And then I’m like “How the heck do friend groups get started then?!” Lol
I had a friend group in college. It was awesome. Then we graduated and never saw eachother again. Primarily because we were the only remaining CS students in our year.
This should be in shitposts, not memes?!
Mine do… Chili, meet Cheese
