To ask how long you’ve known your longest/oldest friend?

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I’m away with friends who we go away with every Christmas and summer, and they’re friends I’ve had since I was literally a baby. We’ve never thought twice about it but it turns out all our DPs/DHs/DWs think it’s impressive/bizarre!

So I’m now just curious - how long have you known your longest running friend?

52 years.

Oldest & closest friend since nursery so 36 years... we've managed to get through 3 weddings, 2 divorces, 7 births & various stints of living hundreds of miles apart...but would always drop everything if the other needed us.

The kids all think it's weird that we knew each other at school... her OH was also at high school with us so he gets it as he's never known her without me & accepts that we're kind of a package deal 😂

49 years but she's my sister.

Since we were 3. We went all through schools together until 18. Now live down the road from each other (a fair way from where we grew up) and our kids go to school together.

40 years

46 years, since I was 10 and she was 11. She now lives in the USA but we connect most days thanks to Facebook and Messenger.

Since we were 4, 35 years now. She's ace.

I'm in touch with secondary friends but very rarely actively see them, so university friends from 18 years ago for friends I still see with a reasonable frequency.

I'm casually in touch with a few from primary but only on a comment on FB level rather than a genuine friendship.

My oldest friendships are only seventeen years long (I'm 29), not got any from primary school or nursery. I often find that the friends I have who have mates since they were babies often have fairly tenuous bonds that are more to do with the length of the friendship than the quality, kinda a 'we're friends cos we've always been' even once the friendship doesn't work for them anymore and goes stale. As opposed to being friends with someone you chose as a developed person with your own interests.

It is cool though for those who have friendships since young childhood that they would still choose to invest in today even without the history. Such luck!

Kind of since birth? We were born in the same tiny ward at the same time, only became friends later though.

Unless we waved chubby baby fists at each other from our respective mother's beds

32 years. We’re 33 . Lived on the same street when we were born, parents went to toddler groups etc together. Between us we’ve lived in 5 countries and about 15 counties but still best friends. Her DD1 was born 3 weeks before my DD2 and they’re best friends. We all spent yesterday together.

54 years.

Since birth. Our parents were best friends and she was born a few months before me. We’ve just hit 41 years friends.

24 years (I'm 26, she's like 6 months older) we live in different countries now but we're super close still :)

My best friend came to visit the day I was born... she was almost 1, our dads went to school together. So best friends my whole life. Impressively she really is my best friend in the world! We've drifted back and forth over the years through school etc but always come back together!

We've been friends for 56 years. We live at opposite ends of the country now, but keep the friendship going with letters and phone calls.

49 years. We met age 5 first day at school. I trust her with my life.

30 years, we met when we were 16.

Dd1's best friend (both aged 13) is someone whose Mum I met at antenatal classes so they've known each other since before birth! Hope they stay friends for a long time to come.

I have a couple of FB friends that I’ve known since I was 4, but as I moved away I don’t actually see them anymore or talk apart from on fb

My best friend I’ve known for 7 years, our manager at work at the time sat me next to her and we bonded over talking about dogs. We’ve supported each other through thick and thin, I’ve got to know her parents quite well too and even went on holiday with friend and her parents a few years ago.

My mum is 63 and still good friends with her best friend from grammar school age 11. They’ve been friends through marriages, children, divorces, new partners, ill health, death of parents, everything.

Forty years. We met at nursery school

27 years, since we were 5

Since we were 3,so almost 40 years!

One friend I was at primary school with so 46 years, another from high school and another from age 18
I’m still good friends with most of the nursery and playground mums I met when DC were that age - so that’s 24+ years ago

57 years - all my life. She's 18 months older than me and we grew up 5 doors apart. We have another friend who started senior school with my friend and were also friends. The 3 of us always meet up on Xmas eve to catch up on the past year

My dad was friends with his bf all his life as well and they also grew up 5 doors apart until his friend died about 7 years ago aged 80

My closest friend - about 12 years. My oldest friends are from school - so about 35 years