Do you have a best friend?

Yes, been friends for about 40 years. She's gorgeous.

Have group of 6 secondary schoolfriends for 60 years and 1 best friend from primary school for 66 years. We meet up approx every 3 months.

Have friends, but not one 'best friend'. I travelled a lot, went to uni abroad before Internet, lost touch with school mates, then parents moved, then I settled miles and miles away, so had to make friends over and over again. Not the same.

Yes I do. We’ve been best friends since age 5 and now 51 (!) years later, we’re still there for each other despite living 250 miles apart.

Yes.

We are early 30’s.

Met during first year of secondary school. She’s one of the only people I can truly trust in life and can confide in about anything.

We go on holidays together, trips, festivals. We are chalk and cheese but I think that’s why we gel so well. I’d be lost without her.

Yes I have a best friend. If I ever murder DH she would help me bury the body and vice versa. We went to uni together and have been emotionally inseparable ever since, even if we only actually see each other once every couple of months. I have a couple of long term friendship groups and a few others which are lovely, but transient, school mums etc.

I do feel very lucky to have someone I can be my absolute 100% worst and best self around with absolutely no filter or judgement. Even DH judges me sometimes but she doesn't. 😂

No. I have may people I love spending time with and a couple of people I might turn to for advice. But not one single friend who stands out above all others.

Those of you saying you have two best friends (or more), surely the point is you can only have one? Hence they're your best friend.

I have a few different groups of friends and am closer to some people more than others but not one "best friend". My dh's sister has a supposed BFF and they are always calling each other "bestie" or "my ride or die" on fb but to us she says she's actually a nightmare! I find it rather superficial and two-faced tbh.

No, although my husband really is my best friend. I’ve accepted that in this life, I’m blessed in so many ways but friendships just aren’t it. You can’t have it all I guess. I do have friends, but not a ‘best friend’.

Yes, met her in my late teens. I don't have a huge close friendship group though. I'm very sociable but like to do my own thing with DP and family. We are also part of quite a big social group from our area so that's nice and is very mixed ages.

No. I don't feel the need for one.

I do have a best friend, she has four legs and is very fluffy ❤️

I did have one for maybe 8 or 9 years, but no other best friend in the last 27 years. We've lost touch now due to different circumstances.

Yes. I did terribly in keeping friends from school and uni but have an oldest best friend who I have known since I was uni age (not at uni together though) and a best best friend who I speak to every day without fail who I met through work about 10 years ago. I’m 40ish now. I feel very lucky, they are all I need.

Yes I do.

I'm very lucky 2 amazing love at first sight best friends / one from school - 50 years, another from uni - 44 years. I also have 2 brilliant female friends and 1 male from work dating back 34 years

Yes, I’m 36 and she’s been my best friend since we were 4. Small circle of good friends, I value quality not quantity, but having a lifelong best friend has been amazing.

I have good friends but i don't think they're exclusive to just me! I need different friends for different interests. So no "best" friend per se but that's ok. I do admire when people do have their one and only, and assume you're not counting DH's.

No, sadly.

Nope.

I would probably say I have more acquaintances than friends now as well.

Yes. We’ve been best friends for 40 years too - ever since we met at school. I have a small handful of other close friends but my best friend is like my sister. We don’t see each other very often as we lived miles apart but we’re in touch a couple of times a week usually.

No. She ditched me when I was diagnosed with my second incurable cancer.

I really dislike the term "best friend" as it implies, by default that other friends are somehow 'less' in some way.

I do have a few really good friends from different parts of my life, and, as a pp said, with different degrees of contact.

Depending on how you define 'best friend', I have friends that I met when we started secondary school (so 50 odd years ago), and a couple of friends I still see who I have known from an even younger age. But none of them are people I see really often. I have a friend that I see about twice a week, but we only met 4 years ago. Then several from somewhere in between. I wouldn't rank any of them as being 'better' than the others though. They are all good friends that I love dearly and would miss terribly if anything happened to them.

I'm lucky enough to have 2, one I've known since 6 and we facetime most days, 37 years later. Another that I've known since I was 9, we talk sporadically but know we're there if needed.

It's not the be all and end all though, I have lots of new friendships too. I'm sure you also do xx