Does everyone except me have a best friend - someone you tell everything to I mean

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My dh is my best friend - he is the person I tell stuff too and want to see when I have news or just to chat things over with. I also have female friends and love to see them and chat but I don't have one close female friend who knows all about my life and what is going on etc. I feel that everyone else does though - is this the case? And how do I get one? (Though am not sure I want one). I had one in the past but she moved away but we are still friends but not in a talk every day way or even every week - once a month more like it.

I have a best friend who knows everything about me /my life, and me hers. I don't know how you get one though, we've been friends since we were kids and is just luck really that we still live close to each other!
I don't have a DP/DH though, so I need my best friend :)

I don't have one, and haven't done for a while. You can't do anything to get one, just try to keep meeting people, being friendly, and see what happens I think

I don't have a best friend but I have a few very close friends that I share things with. I don't think I've ever had one person I would call a best friend - even in high school - as we had a group and we are still close, even though I now live far away from them all. The reason I like to have them (and my new close friends) is that my DH is a fixer - he doesn't like to mull over details or just listen. And they do. It's probably not necessary - but it does add richness to my life.

If you've never had one - or don't really want one - then you probably don't need one!

I suppose that your DH should be your best friend, really.

i do have a couple of really close friends that i tell everything to, but no best friend (i'm still getting used to DH being my best friend - after several years of having a partner who was not my best friend, therefore i told him nothing, but told everything to my female friends - I love telling DH everything, it feels like he's the most important relationship for me)

My DP is my best friend to - and I'm his.

dh is my best friend

girls suck

I dont have one either

I used to have a best friend in that tell-everything way (since primary school) til I woke up and realised it was always a one-sided thing (the thing that finally opened my eyes was when she was having an affair and told her dh that she was with me because I was splitting up with my dp and was very upset... actually I had just discovered I was pregnant and never even got to tell her as she just phoned up and told me that I was providing an alibi)

Now my DP (who I didn't split up with obviously) is my best friend. Though I do sometimes wish I had more good female friends too.

I have a few 'best' friends really, mainly a group of girls I went to university with and we generally know everything about each other. One I speak to more than any other though, so I'd say she's my best friend but it's not an exclusive friendship.

But then, I don't have a DH AND I'm really bad at keeping my own personal life to myself

I don't have a 'best' friend - I do have two very close friends but I really don't share 'everything' with them. DH is certainly NOT my best friend !

My DH is my best friend. It would be nice to have a female best friend probably, but I am not a girly person, so I don't imagine it's ever going to happen.

I have a few 'good' friends, but not one best friend. It's down to me though, because I keep people at arms length.

DH is the only person I've ever opened up to/confided in, so I suppose that makes him my best friend (with benefits )

I am my own best friend

Second best, dh

My dh is my best friend too. I tell him everything! He's the same with me too.

I have several close friends, but not a "best" friend as such.

I dont want to offend anyone but I cringe when I hear the term "best friend". To me its a school girl thing. The new friend who lives opposite me and has a dd the same age as mine who I see almost daily and socialise with knows much more about my life now then my supposed school girl "best friend" who now lives overseas. Also DH the ultimate friend. So OP you not alone

Anyone want a best friend? I used to be a good one

DH is my best friend too! :)

DH is my best friend, I only have aquaintances and colleagues, I don't really do people.

I just have dh too. Have 3 friends that I can contact if I can't talk to dh but none are the tell everything to people

just dp here too

i realised yesterday that even if we had the money to get married omorrow we couldn't as i haven't got a single female friend i'd ask to be a bridesmaid

I have lots of mummy friends who i chat to but no-one that I really click with or would consider myself very close to.

thankfully dp and i are very close and do tell each other everything but it would still be nice to have someone who i don't live with to share things with.

Summerrain - don't let that stop you! I didn't have a bridesmaid, just a couple of witnesses - the only thing you need at your wedding is your DP!

I tell almost everything to DH (didn't tell him I really wanted him to propose for example, but apart from that we have no secrets )

And I tell almost everything to my mum - except for the really personal stuff between DH and myself.

Haven't got a best (girl)friend - I had one at school but I found it too claustrophobic and I don't like the idea of telling one person everything about me, my life, my relationship with DH, his life, etc. I used to be a lot more open about my life but now I prefer not to share too much. Especially as now, if I were to share my life with a BF, I would have to tell lots of things about DH and I don't think that's fair as he is a very private person.

Good point fluffydonkey, I don't really have a best female friend but a few close female friends I tell a lot to, but I know DH has a problem with me telling really personal stuff about him, so I feel I can't.

Does your best friend have to be female? The person I probably tell the most to is a male friend. I'm not very typically "girly" and find a lot of my female friends talk about stuff I'm not interested in, and I often find in a group situation I end up at the bloke's table. I like talking about music, films etc. However it does feel weird at times that I talk about personal stuff with another man, and sometimes feel a bit guilty even, as if it could be seen as inappropriate.

i have actually jsut realised in the last month that my exp is my best friend. the girl who i would have considered my best friend jsut hasn't been there for me and i find that even when i do want to talk things through with someone, it is Exp i talk to.

summerrain I struggled for a witness too :( friend from first wedding I don't see any more & was between two mummy friends for this time