Do you still see or talk to your best friend from childhood?

As I grow up , I find it harder and harder to make good and close friends for real. I slowly stopped being in connection with most of my childhood friends like the ones that I learned with at school , at the junior high ... We have changed and obviously we don't play like we used to do. My only friend from childhood is the one who lives in front of my house and he is 2 years younger than me. He is always around the neighbourhood , like me , we both don't work (I study twice a week now and I'm looking for a job). We have some things we like to talk about but I wish he would also hang out with me and my friends or just come and visit or walk with me and my dog.

Well, I lost contact with my Best friends from childhood for quite a few yrs. I always wondered about a lot of them, and how they are doing. But Thanks to Facebook I was able to reconnect with a lot of them, and if I can afford it, am supposed to go to a Class Reunion and meet up with a lot of them in July. I am excited, but not sure I can afford to go.

There isn't anyone from my school with whom I would want to stay in close contact; I have nothing in common with any of those people--not politics, not religion, not books read (most didn't read then and likely still don't), not movies liked, not passion for real food, not love of travel, not a love of knowledge... Those were people whom I simply knew due to having been born in that area. I never had anything in common with any of them. Instead, I have some close friends from college--including two who will likely be in my wedding party and be "aunts" to any children I have. They are my best friends, and we really do have things in common.

I had the same best friend all the way through primary school, but we started to drift apart a little bit when we went to secondary school. One of the reasons is because I have a strong suspicion that she stole money from my Mum when we were both 12. She was round at our house for lunch one day and we noticed that £20 had gone missing, which was a lot to us back then, and she was the only one who had been round. I just couldn't trust her after that, and it meant that we didn't invite her round again and I hardly spoke to her again after that. Once trust is broken in a friendship, things can get very difficult.

My friend from grade school and I still keep in touch. I introduced her to a friend that I made in junior high and we still see each other on a regular basis. We get together every Christmas and sometimes more often. I email her and call her often. She lives out of state, but still has family here, so she comes home a lot, and we see her most times. She is the one that suggested I join Mylot. She is very busy with work now, and doesn't have a lot of time to come on, but 3 years later, I am still here.

not really lost contact with 90% of em

How can I talk to them? They are all no where to be found. There are a couple of them but they were not friends. They were just people I knew when I was a kid. I still keep in contact with some people I knew when I was already grown up. A few of them are my facebook friends. They don't live at the same town. We chat when we are online only.

yes i still see my friend since i was 8 yrs old...we keep on seeing each other twice or thrice a month even though we have different schedule and life now..I totally agree with facebook it gets you connected with your old friends

hi, my childhood friends living in my province and since i came here in the city i never seen them unless when i go to my province,for sure that i will hang up with them,though we still have communication but very often only because everyone are busy too with their work.

Nope, Things had already changed. We may be friends when we were young, but then not today. I don't know what had happened. They had changed and they forget what we have shared. We don't have any communication anymore.

Hi ladym, if I had been asked that question 6 months ago I would have said NO, but one of my best friends located me on FB and I was so so happy...We had not seen or spoken to each other in over 35 years...and since that time I have contacted many more of the friends from the past...thanks to facebook... Its realy nice to reconnect to people of your pass especially those who had any kind of impact in your life.....

Yes, I've known her since we were 5 and I must admit she's the only best friend I have. Until we were 15, we were inseparable. Then I moved overseas, and we stay in touch best we could. We could not be as closed as before because of the distance; but in a way it brought us closer each time we do see each other. Tomorrow is her birthday, I'll text her tonight when it's exactly midnight where she is. Over the years, she may encountered other good friends; but I'd just like to be the first to wish her happy birthday. She's used to that, and she knows I don't do Facebook. She wants me to join FB years ago, but I just told her that she'll be the only friend I have there anyway.

Hello!! Childhood friends are the first people who knows us very well. Unfortunately, some of my friends our out of the country, they are working there so we cant see each other but we are still talk through facebook or skype.:)

I absolutey do. We have been best friends since I was 12 and she was 13. And now we are in our mid 40's. That isnt to say we didnt have our times when our friendship temporarily ended or didnt speak. That happened cause we tried living together in our early 20's. Big Mistake especially on my part since I know im hard to live with on an every day basis and also being that young was not as patient as I am now. We stopped speaking for about a year and then out of the blue she wrote me as we live about an hour and a half apart and it was like we picked up where we left off minus the hurt feelings. I think it was an Oprah show or something she had seen and realized how silly we both were to end our great friendship over something so silly. We made up and have seen each other thru thick and thin and I know we can both say there isnt anything we cant tell the other that would cause us to run now. I like having someone in my corner no matter what..Hopefully you two will run across each other some where and you can explain why you didnt write back.. If you know how to reach someone who was a great friend but somehow let each other slip away contact them. Worse case you got in touch with an old friend best case you got your old friend back smarter and wiser hopefully..Smiles

Well I ended the friendship with my best friend from childhood when we were in our mid 20's. For years she has caused nothing but trouble for herself - and doing nothing to help herself - and I had enough of her. After having my final say, I felt like I had a boulder lifted off my shoulders - and never had regrets. Fast forward 15 years later, she found me on Facebook via a mutual friend. I was hesitant about being her friend again - but I felt it was only Facebook - so I added her in. Seems things haven't changed much with her - and she even said that too. I haven't been chummy-chummy with her, but at the same time, it's been good to communicate with her on the lighter things of life. Keeping the "contact" strictly on Facebook only. I had another "best" friend at school - in middle school and in high school. We had a lot in common except for religion - and sadly, she told me she couldn't keep in touch with me as I didn't have the same beliefs. I would write to her every now and then - but that's all our communication was after high school. I went to her wedding - not by official invitation, but I think as an after thought on her part after we I had written a congratulatory note to her about her wedding. It kind of hurt when she was gloating on about her "best friend" who was her maiden of honor. And next I saw her was at our wedding reception - and then for 5 minutes at my baby shower when she couldn't stay (because she really wasn't supposed to socialize with those not in her religious circle). We haven't had any contact since.

I don't talk to my old best friend, haven't for several years. We've been in and out of contact. She's constantly chaging her phone number so I might hear from her once or twice a year, usually during birthdays and holidays. And, even then I usually have to wait for her to call me. For the above reason.

I do still stay in touch with my best friend who I met in 5th grade. We have always been close so Im glad we have stayed intouch even after our lives changed so much. We text and call and talk on facebook.

hi there ladym33, I do keep in contact with my old buddies back in elementary and highschool , but we dont really have that much time to spend with each other, most of them are abroad or we are all busy at work but hi's and hello's are constant in facebook.

I moved numerous times in my childhood so I never could keep my friends. I do however talk to my best friend from middle school. We've been friends since 8th grade (her being 13 and me being 14) Sometimes we talk every day or sometimes at least two times a week but we do at least talk every week. It seems like we are closer now that we are out of school and dont see each other every day.

I still know my best friend, but it is nothing like it was before. I know what is going on in her life through facebook and mutual friends, but because of complications that arose long ago, I no longer talk to her anymore.