How many CLOSE friends do you have??

United States
July 31, 2011 9:43am CST
I think I have trust issues with people so I only literally have like 5 people I really consider a friend..sad but true. lol. I never understood people who hae tons of close friends.. i mean how close can u get with so many people but idk everyone is different..
6 responses
1 Aug 11
good friends and friends are 2 VERY diff things. I have a lot of friends but your lucky to have just one good friend. Most are family, that are there for you when you need them, even if you dont see them all the time.Other than that i think i have maybe 2 or 3 good friends. I see one of them maybe once a year if even that, but if we needed each other we would be there in a heart beat. One is my god sister so practically family, or is family. And then one i met a couple years ago, we didnt get along as much before but we became really close recently. I have other good friends but they dont know me as much as these three. :)
• Philippines
1 Aug 11
I don't have that many close friends and I'm not surprised. People that you can trust are few, and those that pretend that you can trust are all over the place. I always remember this because this is one those nightmares I didn't wanna come true when I was a kid but came true anyway.
@dodo19 (47066)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
31 Jul 11
I have to say that I only have a few close friends. I do have a lot of friends, but only a few good close friends.
@sreesai (215)
• India
31 Jul 11
Hi penny4urthoughts, I have 2 close friends. I too agree with you.
@webgirl01 (689)
• United States
31 Jul 11
Actually, I don't have much close friends. I feel I'm either not cool enough or popular or interesting to have alot of close friends. Generally when I was young, I didn't have much friends. I lost a few during elementary. Those friends I didn't hang out with during middle/junior high school or high school. Everyone i knew that i felt, had outgrew me. I felt lonely. I also think that. I was kinda loner back in high school and somewhat in college. I had friend with 2 people but they were manipulative in someway. One was the one I knew from 6th grade who also went to the same middle school and high school as me. And another one was a year and a grade lower than me and I met her in junior high. I feel hard to trust certain people and I regret past mistakes with other people. I also feel people were fed up with me as well. I was not popular or group and I don't have alot of close friends. Generally have 2 or 3 close friends, but I feel one of them I would not trust and i'm distant. One of the friends I have are manipulative and it sucks I have not so good friends. I always feel i stick with the wrong batch of people. So i have one close friend I can trust but I try not to be attached to friends. I do have alot of acquaintance friend or classmates but i was never an every-day hang out type of thing. I don't have a group of friends and i feel left out in groupies. What can I talk about, what should i talk about? I'm the quiet one and shy one. I feel there's different cliques. I also don't understood how people or certain people has tons of close friends or groups of friends.I get jealous (very) about popular people or whom has more close friends that are loyal to the person. I feel hard to trust people ever since people have taken advantage of me. I guess everyone is different. oh well.
@pbbbsra (1214)
• Philippines
31 Jul 11
I have know a lot of people, but I only have a few friends. I only have eight really close friends. We are in one circle and I really love them. I have only one best friend, but we also share the same close friends and everybody in the group knows that me and my bestfriend are something else. I don't need a lot of friends. I am happy to have eight trusted friends. I am okey to have just few, when I know that they are true,