Friends

[nana]

I sometimes find that as women we have a hard time keeping and maintaining friendships. I can count on one hand the number of true girlfriends I have! These friends are the ones that can finish your thoughtS, the ones that you can call after several weeks, months or years and start the conversation up where you left it off, and the ones you can go too when you are happy :p or sad :( .

True friendships are important and the older we get the more involved we become with our jobs, husbands and familes. However, I have found that it is important to have those friendships in order to keep me sain and my feet grounded.

Girlfriends are the best friends to have and we all need to keep them close! :hug: :hug:

[Ellyanne777]

Its sooo true...I only have one maybe two true girlfriends that I feel I can tell anything to but I will tell you that I call mark my best girlfriend...he hates that but its true...I can tell him anything and he will never look at me strange or different. We are two in the same and as the years go on I need my girlfriends less and less I'm really there only for them these days!!

[nana]

I feel the same way about JJ! I tell him everything! However, there is a different level of communication with my girlfriends then with JJ.

[Life201]

Originally posted by nana
These friends are the ones that can finish your thoughtS, the ones that you can call after several weeks, months or years and start the conversation up where you left it off, and the ones you can go too when you are happy :p or sad :( .

Girlfriends are the best friends to have and we all need to keep them close! :hug: :hug:

NaNa, It’s also amazing what true friends can overcome and still be there for each other. I have so few true friends that have been there, But I’ve been very blessed that I haven’t lost those friends even in the most trying of times.

My best friend is closer to me than my family and has been there over the past several years when no one else would be and no one else could or would try to understand.

I say cheers to girlfriends, especially the really true ones. You know who you are and you know you are loved!

[Frantabulous]

I thought I had several good friends but I found out the hard way I have one true friend in this world. She's 73 years old.

One thing that's really missing in my life are girl friends. I got burned in a very bad way last year by a group of ladies I thought I'd be friends with forever. We'd been friends for several years and I loved them like sisters. Come to find out they were all bashing me behind my back and then did something very, very cruel to publicly humiliate me. One of the ladies from the group stood by me, only to double-cross me a few months later. I have to say, it has scarred me deeply.

I long for one or two close girl friends whom I can chit chat with and spend time with, but even if they were to walk in my life today, I can't honestly say I'd accept them. I think my guard is up so high that it would sabatoge any attempt. This makes me the cause of my own loneliness.

[iamhope]

Growing up i always had a best friend plus other friends that i always talked to too. After i got married that ended. My hubby was a social person and wanted me to just need him. So i lost all my friends. But in the years he has come around and i met this girl and we hit it off. We were friends for about 7yrs. I broke it off a few months ago cause i couldn't handle her lying anymore. I was friends with her hubby as well and i couldn't face him anymore, knowing all the lies his wife was telling him. Man i miss having a girlfriend so much. Sure i can talk to hubby but it's just not the same. It's hard to make a best friend at 30 yrs of age.

[rdy2rac with]

Luckily I have found 3 great friends that I can talk about anything with (& after my batchelorette party I can easily say ANYTHING). Easily 2 are my sisters (2 of the many) & the 3rd I happened to meet by chance. She is the wife (then girlfriend) of my hubby's life long best friend. She fit so well in our little group & is such a part of the family that she stood up in my wedding (along with 4 of my sisters) & everyone thought she was one of my sisters.

[Lisa]

I have a lot of girlfriends. But my truly best friend is my sister. We talk almost everyday and tell each other everything. :)

[meliz]

Don't have many close girlfriends, really. We moved ALOT growing up-- so I have lots of friends, but really only one BEST friend. Despite living in different cities we've kept in touch over the years, and still go on vacations together, and she was my MOH n' all. But really my absolute best friend is my twinnie... we're very close and talk at least once a day...

[andrea]

i dont really have any good girlfriends... i thought my best friend in ga was still my best friend until my wedding and i decided nope not anymore....


my true only friend is my hubby

[Sexy Strawberry]

In high school I had several good girlfriends but tomorrow I'm going to Madrid and they're going to another places so our friendships will be over, I'm sure. Distance breaks friendships because people meet other people and they move on.
I hope to make good friends in University... but right now I can't say I have a best friend.

[nana]

Strawberry...Don't give up so easily on those friendships. If they are worth keeping they will last. My 3 girlfriends all live almost 1500 miles away from me. We keep in touch over email, HT and the phone! We all have busy lives and I talk to them each on a regular basis. Two of them I talk to at least three times a week on email, if not every day. The other has 5 small childern and I talk to her on the phone at least once a month. We all pick up right were we left off.

Friends are hard to find and you will learn as you get older that the ones worth keeping will be your friends no matter what the distance between you might be!

[Sexy Strawberry]

Awww Nana it's really cool that you're able to keep your friendships! I will come home some weekends, so I will see my friends sometimes I guess... but I'm excited too because I'll be meeting new people.
Anyway it'd be nice if I could keep my friendships just like you do :)

[Tigerlily]

My best friends are the three friends friends from college that were (and still are) the greatest. We all live in different spots from CA to FL to upstate NY, but we always get together once a year somewhere! I think good friends are hard to come by as you get older, so we're holding on for dear life so we don't lose touch with each other. It's just not easy to pick up a good, loyal friend just anywhere anymore!