How Long

[Kiss The Midget]

just thought i would try this post to see how long people keep there friends...

i have more than one friend that i have had for many many years ( cant say how long will give away my age)

greg

[Paper Hearts]

Probably since like '89 or '90, for me.

[Medea]

I've been friends with my best friend Caitlin for close to 14 years now.

[Guest Megalicious]

My bestfriend Jamie ....Ive know jamie for 18+ years ... and its strange we turned out SO different, in everyway, but we still remained bestfriends to this day. And My other good friend Nicole, that ive know for about 12 years .. also one of my bestfriends. Its strange .. I live in Michigan, Jamie lives in California and Nicole lives in Colorado now after living abroad for 3 years..... and even though we have been so far apart we have still remained bestfriends, I know if something was to happen and i need one of them Ill i have to do is call and they will be on the next flight out. And they know Id do the same for them.

[float]

most of my friends have been so for 15 years or more

but Brian, I have know since I was 3, that's 30 years

still see him a lot

[Guest MsMaldoror]

I've been friends with my best friend from high school for over 17 years now. We met when we were 15 and sophomores. We went to college together. Now we're 32 and have both been through hell and back.

[kellygrrrrrl]

Jen & I have been friends since 10th grade. 11 years ago.

Our friendship is sparse, we see each otehr very little. She lives in Canton I live in Royal Oak, on the other side of the planet. We lead very different lives now, and so it is hard. She has a 5 year old and I have no kids, so she wants to come over with her boy, but I cannot allow it with the rated R-ness at my house. It's hard.

[paradox]

27 years. one friend i have my mom used to babysit for when he was 1. we are still good friends today. hell, i consider him to be a brother.

[bean]

My one best friend and I have been friends since we were 12, so like 13 years. My other best friend and I have been friends for 11 years. She moved to Florida not too long ago, and we talk on the phone all the time, and I will visiting her there probably in August or September. We were like sisters...I miss her a lot! Then there are my other friends that I met in college, that I've been friends with between 4-7 years. Good friends stick around for a long time.

[Nienna]

my longest frinedshipis going on it's 22nd year. We've been like sisters all our lives and only had 2 major fights the whole time. Life led us down two VERY different paths, but it really dosn't seem to matter.

I tend to keep friends all my life. If someone becomes special enough to me to be a friend, they're a part of me forever.

[Shade Everdark]

My longest is only about 10 years old. We became friends soon after I started college.

Most of my friends and I have tended to part ways at major life events. Graduation, marriage, etc.

[ManicQueen]

I have one friend that I've been friends with and that Marblez. We have been friends for like 4 years? Everyone else has been cut out of my life because I suck and they suck even more I'm not a very social person.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

26 (?) years. (my friend don)

20 (?) years (my friend wendy)

Both, are bums though when it comes to posting on the net... grrr. haha

Not sure i have any other "active" friendships that are over about hrmm... 9 years?

[Fierce Critter]

6-1/2 years, that being my husband, Jon.

Jon and I are identical in that once a person has ceased "serving a purpose" in our lives, they're gone. Or once we realize someone has become "dead weight", basically they're out. Neither of us have any friends from before we got married.

This is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, we're free of leeches who hang on, taking and never giving. We're free of people who do things like never call us, never are the first to IM, that sort of thing.

But on the other hand, I'm very envious of people who have friends.

I have a potential friend waiting for me in Michigan, thanks to DGN. And Jon did have a friend through a previous job who makes a good ice fishing buddy. So we're capable of seeking out and keeping people around that we enjoy. But it took some re-adjusting how we view friendships in general.

I used to think a friend had to be perfect. Like all the same things. Hate all the same things. etc. I learned finally that it's o.k. to, for instance, enjoy Jane's company at concerts, but not at dinners. To enjoy Bob for playing music together, but not for hanging out. But I figured that out too late - ended up in a life situation that didn't really expose me to new people, so no chance to practice that new viewpoint.

Doesn't matter much. Jon and I are pretty tight, and neither of us care to spend time with people outside of ourselves. With the possible exception of my family. Both of us enjoy hanging out with my sisters especially, and my parents. Can't wait to get back to Michigan to hang out with them again.

[Saephyr]

My longest currently STILL living and active relationship is my friend from 1982 and let's just say we've had some VERY serious obsticles :whistling don't ask cuz you wouldn't believe me if I told you.

Lately, I've mostly been losing friends from ages past because they won't tolerate my illnesses so :doh

[Enochian_Deity]

I have 3 friends who have been drinking buddies and jamming friends since 1984. All but one of us have recently got together to play the old Dungeons and Dragons again on Saturday nights. It’s really killer; I am a chaotic evil multi-class assassin and magic user. It is the most fun I have had in years. I have collected people and killed them through out 2 entire towns. There is never a body found. Just the writing in blood “Hail Asmodeus”. Asmodeus is my deity in this particular game, and he must be pleased… LOL It's all fantasy role playing but really lots of fun.

PS. I did start drinking and playing guitar at as an early teenager.

[Goth Brooks]

my longest is 10yrs, my friend Brandt.. I met him down island and hung out with him almost every day. I just called him for the first time in a long ass time and we shot the shit for quite awhile.. Guess it's about time I got my ass back down there.

[Soulrev]

Longest - my friend Brian - 14 years

shortest - out in Laramie - 2 months cuz they stabbed me in the back and I hope they die of a vicious disease.

[JaneDead]

i have a friend that i have known since birth and her cousin that i have known since she was born. we are not close friends but we still know/see each other. (they are my mom's friend's daughters)

i used to have a friend i was friends with since 8th grade but that friendship ended about 3 years ago. so i guess we were friends about 14 years.

i have another friend that i have known since 3rd grade. after highschool though we didn't see or talk to each other for 10 years. i found her again online and started to talk to her that way. (she lived out of hte country at that point) she lives back in michigan now and i talk to her but have not seen her much lately.

yet another friend i have i have known since 12 grade and we still talk constantly even though she lives in another state.

a great majority of other people i know i have known for 9 years plus. they are not my "close" friends but i have known them for so long i feel they are still a big part of my life.

now that i think about it i have very few "new" friends that i have only known a year or two.

[Brenda Starrr]

Wayne is my best friend, and has been for 7 years. I can't seem to keep a good female friend to save my life, and I can't figure out why. All of my closest friends are and have been men. I'm like the sister to them. I'm not complaining, though. If anyone ever tried to mess with me, they'll mess the poor fool up if I don't hurt them first.

[Homicidalheathen]

just thought i would try this post to see how long people keep there friends...

I have been freinds with Dee, who is my best buddy, Since I was 4 and she was 2. Our families are all freinds, we all hang out and she is like my sister. I am sure one day one of us will be attending the others funeral.

[Msterbeau]

Somewhere in the 20 year range for a number of people...

[gothicmom]

I had a school friend....we were friends for about 20 years, then I stopped it because she was on my last nerve. She was TOO demanding. Everytime I would come up to MI to visit she would want and almost demand that I spend everyday with her. She just got to me too much for me.

Other than that I would have to say that my husband is the next longest friendship of about 14 years.

[Homicidalheathen]

Sqrew the people who cannot understand your physical limitations. $Dave is still my freind because he stays around even when your sick. He and a couple others were the only ones who really understood when I couldn't go out much and was in allot of pain. They weren't turned off by my illness and were very supportive.

My longest currently STILL living and active relationship is my friend from 1982 and let's just say we've had some VERY serious obsticles  :whistling don't ask cuz you wouldn't believe me if I told you.

  Lately, I've mostly been losing friends from ages past because they won't tolerate my illnesses so  :doh

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[The_Dark]

35 years is the longest... most of my good friends that are close about about 20 years.