How many female friendships do you have?

[BrandySnaps1]

Do you keep in contact with anyone you grew up with? school, uni, work?

How to make new friends as we get older and not lost yourself once you get married/children

I have two friends from when I was young. They aren't friends, one I went to school with and another met in my teenage years. Sometimes I don't see either of them for 2 or 3 months. They, like me, and probably urself, get caught up in daily life, work and family. Bit if U can get someone who'll be there if U need them and can understand u when Ur busy
Then Ur onto a winner
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Really close ones, 4. Then a couple of school mum/play date friends, a few colleague friends and a few from school I see once or twice a year. I consider myself socially average.

6 from childhood/uni. Most spread to the 4 corners. Moved through adult friends as we have moved about too but there are always nice people about to have interactions with.

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A gang from school, a gang from uni - I am closer to 2 women than the rest in each of those groups. Some live locally and I see them most weeks, others live all over the place and I see them less often. Then a handful of friends I have made as an adult through running/the kids mainly.

2 from school. None from uni. 1 through a group I used to go to. 1 work friend. Two others who moved so only Facebook friends who I never see.

Hope to join a choir fairly soon maybe make a new friend we shall see!H

I have lost touch with loads over the years. Moves etc.

Wow. this seems like a lot! have you moved around at all? or are the school/uni gang all local to you

Some from school, some from various different jobs, some from houseshares, some from MN, some from another online forum, one from when I did an overseas residential thing. Most aren't very local to me, some aren't even in this country, but there's FB, email, WhatsApp, phones, letters, and meet-ups when we can.

The most recent friends are from work and online.

Close friends who I’d call in a crisis 5 (one of them my SIL).
Known one for 20 years, others around 10-15 years. Few other work friends/colleagues. Not in touch with anyone from school. Some of my current work friends could become close in time I think.

One still close friendship from school. We don't see each other a lot as I'm busy with family and she's busy with her career but we message and chat a lot and meet when we can and it's like no time has passed. I had another friend like this but we no longer speak as she seems to have ghosted me. And I have a few casual friendships from my children's school. But even with those connections I don't feel I've got any real friends anymore, who I could call when I'm in a pickle or go out for a drink short notice.

I have a couple of acquaintances but no friends and I quite like it that way.

Still in touch with some old friends from school & uni, some friends I met doing various activities years ago & have kept, a lot - old and new - from feminist campaigning.

I couldn’t put a number on them, really. Three from school (though two of those I’ve only reconnected with lately), countless from two different universities (though more from postgraduate days), from every job I’ve had, parents of DS’s friends at schools in two countries, a couple from local campaigning. A couple just randomly — one very new friend I met on the street after a film we’d both seen and clicked, another I bought a painting from. I met one in an art gallery just before Covid.

I have two good friendships whom I met at church.

Same really. But I'd like an actual friend of I'm honest.

I still have friends from school. We've been friends for over 50 years. I have different groups of friends that I've met through work over the years. Some of who I've been friends with for over 30 years. My most recent friends are fairly new, in the last 5 years. I never got lost in being married or having children. I always made time to see friends, we always had nights out etc. I'd have been v unhappy if I'd only had my family for company and socialising. I value all my friendships.

None from school or university unfortunately (other than the odd Facebook message) as I've moved around a lot.

Two very close friends that I made at baby group when I had DD1 and a small group of school mums (four of us) that I'm close to, see socially and we help one another out.

@BrandySnaps1 , have you tried any evening classes? They're a great way to meet friends with similar interests too.🤗🤗

Gosh, there are loads of women I would consider "friends". Maybe not close friends exactly, but definitely friends rather than just acquaintances. Not so many from school/uni etc (fewer than 10, and I thought that made me a bit weird!). But lots of local friends from where I live now, many dating from when the children were pre-school age, nearly 20 years ago. I wouldn't be sure how to count them really. What's your threshold for someone counting as a "friend"?

A few old friends I have known 25+ years. One from school, 45 years ago.

Quite a few mum friends I made when our DCs were at school (who are now early 20s). We still meet up regularly, weekends away, nights out/lunch etc.

oh and 3 work friends who I see regularly out of work.

I don’t really count friends but I have around 12 good friends and more ‘acquaintance’ type friends - a couple from school, but most from my teens (out of school), some ‘mum’ friends, some from previous jobs. I’m not really in touch w anyone from uni any more apart from on FB.
i’m always up for meeting new people! Am working on this atm… I’d like more ‘couple’ friends - we had this when DCs were in school w other parents, but this has dwindled a lot as the youngest ones are now 20!

3 friends from school so I've known them 40+ years. 3 work colleagues I'm close to. My family are also my friends. Lots of acquaintances.

2 close friends from school days plus one more who I see more rarely. Close mum friends I’ve made since I’ve had kids 2 or 3. Along With others that I chat to at the school or on evenings out. More that I’ve made but don’t see very much/have lost touch for whatever reason but if I saw them would be happy to chat and have a catch up. And then I’ve also gone to uni and completed a degree in recent years and have made 4 or 5 friends that while not super close I definitely want to stay in touch with. There are also my male friends wives and girlfriends that I count as friends and can have a good chinwag with when we meet up.

2 childhood, my sister, 2 neighbours, 3 friends for a couple of years, my boss. I could call on any one of them in an emergency and we are all very close.