Best friends

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Just a random question. How old were you when you met your best friend.
I'm 44 and haven't got anyone I would class as my best friend. Suppose I want to know if at my age it's possible to make a best friend or is it to late

I think you can make deep and real friendships at any point. . but...i feel my two oldest friends I know. Like really know.. and we will always be friends. I have found with friends I made after school and uni. They can sometimes shock you. Or betray you.

First best friend moved overseas when we were 8.We kept in proper touch for years, until our early twenties, then dropped to very occasional/latterly social media contact. I saw her for the first time in 35 years a couple of weeks ago when we visited her country. We still have a lot in common, and our lives have followed quite similar paths.

Not sure I have a 'best friend' now. I have a few good friends, plenty of 'good' friend/acquaintances and very strong relationships with husband and sister. That's fine for me.

We met at infants are are now in our early 40s. My DD and nieces call her Aunty, she has all my family round at Christmas. I love seeing her parents and family. We're very close.

When I was 27. We’ve been best friends for more than 20 years. I’ve got other friends but nobody ever comes close to her. I can’t explain why we work either. We are very different but she’s the only person in the whole world who can make me laugh until I cry

I have a few best friends from Uni however I live overseas now and although I have friends, I'm yet to find a best friend like those girls :-( accepting it may just be what happens as you get older. I have lots of friends but I really really miss that best mate bond.

I haven't had one since I was in my early teens. I don't see a need to rank the people I know by their closeness to me.

I thought this was a good article.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/30/how-to-make-new-friends-adult-lonely-leap-of-faith

Met my best friend in reception! Been best friends ever since and now live on the same street! I have a couple of other close friends and am close with my many cousins so I'm happy.

Cawfee, me and my best friend are also very, very different but just click

I feel very lucky in that I have a few really, really close friends but the one I am closest to currently (we speak every day, visit each others houses in PJ's, first person you go to when in trouble etc) I met when I was 30.

My very best friend was my sister.
God, how I miss her.
I have 2 other best friends who I met at work.
Probably 18 years ago. So early 30's
I have another good friend from school. We were best friends from the age of 12.
And another from my mid 20's.

I have been friends with a woman I met at work when I was 21 which is around 28 years ago. We even house shared at one point as I had split with my then boyfriend.

I also have a great friend who I met when our sons were in reception together, they are both 17 now. So I was late thirties then.

The other amazing wonderful woman who was a close friend died last year aged 42. We had known each other 10 years. She was the best human I have ever met and that's not just rose tinted spectacles.

They are my three closest friends I had another but we sadly disagreed as I felt compelled to point out her BF was abusing her. It was a shoot the messenger moment. I miss her but would still do the same.

I am in your boat OP. If Im not a work for a week I dont get any messages or meet up with anyone. Come to like my own (and my DH / DCs) company but still, I do sometimes feel down. So many people say Im an integral part of our office group, or the mums at the school, but Im very different and have waaayyy too many health issues that people dont like to bother me when Im home x

My current really good friend I got close to at 48 and we speak every day I don’t do that with any of my other friends