If you can't trust your best friend are they really the right best friend?

United States
July 25, 2010 9:27pm CST
Best friends are supposed to do everything together, tell each other everything and trust each other. Thats at least what I thought a best friend was but recently a friend of mine was like I don't trust her talking about her best friend riding home with her long time boyfriend and the father of her son. It made me wonder if you call her your best friend and you do everything together do you really think she would do something to you like that? If so why the heck would you call them your best friend. What is everyones take on this? Do you trust your best friend with your boyfriend/girlfriend? I know myself I trust my best friend and would tell him anything and my girlfriend is my other best friend and I would trust her with my heart!
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17 responses
• Philippines
26 Jul 10
Best friends are friends that you can trust and stays as friend whatever happens, if the person or a friend that you have doubt and can not be trusted he or she is not a best friend.
• Vietnam
26 Jul 10
I think best friend is a person who you can share everything with his/her . they alway listen you tell and have a best advice for you and his/her doesn't cheat you. I think best fiend is your father, mother, sister, and someone you have trust in and his/her trust with you. You don't worry about bestfriend because their don't gossip, they don't share your information with another people
• Philippines
26 Jul 10
Friends come and go, our best friends are the ones that stay with you. You may call a certain friend your best friend at one time but its the experiences you share and the quality time you spend together that tests that friendship. Trust is something you build over time. If your so-called best friend doesn't trust you then maybe you both don't qualify to be the best of friends.
• United States
26 Jul 10
I agree with you totally on not qualifying them as your best friend.
@naoimi09 (106)
• Philippines
27 Jul 10
every relationship, such as friendship, requires trust for it to last a long time.
@shockrayz (199)
27 Jul 10
It will depend on the reason why you do not trust your best friend. Consider also the reason why he or she became your best friend in the first place.
@aaronfyzeon (1920)
• Philippines
27 Jul 10
If your friendship is not built on trust then you are not friends. you can just simply say you are just merely an acquaintance!
@zemma1992 (126)
• Portugal
27 Jul 10
I believe that we should trust our best friends to a certain extent, i mean i trust my best friend with everything i have shared a lot of things with him, but the thing is you never know what the other person feels it is a risk that all of us take when we share things with our best friends, because at any moment out best friends can turn into our worst enemies, because they know everything about us, food for thought.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
26 Jul 10
A best friend is someone to share your hopes and dreams with. They are the one you take all of your troubles to. Your best friend should be able to count on the same things from you. If you don't have trust in a relationship with a best friend, you need to think about what kind of friendship you really have with that person. Trust is a bond as strong as friendship. You need to be able to trust a best friend to call them that.
@p3ks626 (6538)
• Philippines
26 Jul 10
How can you call someone to be your friend if you dont trust him or her. That person is definitely your not best friend if you cant trust that person. Trust is a very important part of friendship. If I cant trust a person then he or she is not considered a friend.
@tomitomi (5429)
• Singapore
26 Jul 10
Hi justpjteb! The least to hang on to a best friend is trust. And that's at least for me. When trust is betrayed as has happened with mine, the best of colleagues for almost two decades, trust is no longer trust with him. It's best to be just friends if that should somehow be easier to because it's not either. Let time tell.
• China
26 Jul 10
I think there no need for you to trust your best friend with your heart. everybody will lie, we cant promise that our friend never tell a lie to us ,but we can ensure that they will not do harm to us ,this is enough this is only my advise, i wish that it can help you May a good lucky to you!
@Suggar (3606)
• Bulgaria
26 Jul 10
I have only one best friend and this is the person who sleep next to me on our bed every night. That's my boyfriend. I'm always sure that i know what is deep inside him, because he share it with me, everything, every part of his discomfort and his happiness. All other people are just friends. I don't split the people who i respect as friends. I'm sure that even if we don't talk for months, they will stay my friends and i'll be able to trust them and will have their care if i need it. But i'm trying to deal my problems alone or only with the person next to me. I don't like to talk about it with people who are our of our little relationship box. Sometimes i share stories from our past if someone need advice. I don't like giving advices so i prefer to share some experience, what i've done, when i felt that way. And people who are close to me appreciate that. If i have some of problems and share it with other people, which is not happening very often, i prefer to know how other people deal with their things.
@swn_chik (266)
• India
26 Jul 10
Best friend doesn't mean that they should stick with you 24 hours and nod to whatever you say....common we are in 21st century and i think you should give space to them as well.If they are with you than they are your bestfriend and if they are not then no worries,friends come and go....you 'll meet lot more friends in your walk of life.
26 Jul 10
Best friends are supposed to have a strong relationship. Strong enough that you can trust them with anything. If you cant trust your best friend the you were never best friends or the relationship/bond is breaking.
26 Jul 10
the friens in this world are not exist , the real griend for me is mother and my brothers can trust them :)
@greygoo (795)
• Philippines
26 Jul 10
hmm... i actually have a problem with trusting best friends. i can't seem to open up to them, or to anyone for that matter. i grew up to be a listener, and a referee between my two best friends, so i never really 'learned' to talk about me to them (it was always about them to me). it wasn't a problem before because i'm not fond of sharing about what's happening to me anyway. but i realized now that i haven't got a clue about how to distinguish between friends whom i can trust and those otherwise. i haven't got much practice when i was younger. it's sad. i don't know whom i could talk to about my troubles. i know in my heart that i love my best friends. i just haven't figured out how i could get myself to trust them. the problem's with me. i'm hoping i could open up fully to them someday.
@Shinyqiu (119)
• China
26 Jul 10
In my opinion,The definition of really best friends must be trusted by each other for everything.I believe everyone has many friends,anyone need friends in aspect for study,work,life.If you don't trust you best friends,it only can regard as you simple ones.I think really friends would be acquaint for many years,and you can tell everything to each one,u can get helps when u are trapped in dangerous situation;u also enjoy happy,extied ect to both when u success in what you seek the goal.
• Australia
26 Jul 10
It depends how well you know all about them. And to see how they react around your bf/gf. You have the right to suspious is something seems odd. I trust my best friends because we have been thru hard times and good times and we still get along really well to date. Sometimes its best to accept someone for who they are rather then pick out little things you don't like. A best friend is someone that you can go to for help, to talk and to enjoy the company. If you can't do that with someone then they aren't your best friend. And only you inside will be able to make that decision on whether or not to give them the title of best friend. Have they earnt it?