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Your poll didn't include a number between 10 and 30. I have right around 30 treasured friends whom I consider to be like honorary family, plus that many more who come pretty close.
To me, if you feel really close and comfortable with someone you want to communicate with them all the time. So I don't understand people that say they have close friends who they only talk to a few times a year. Why would you talk to them so little if you felt so close to them?
* Don't tell me you are busy because people spend time doing things that they really want to do. And if you really felt all that close to the person you would find the time to talk more often!
I have three close friends and my wife and talk to my brother once every week or so. I also have some people at work I am friendly with and may go out to lunch with them on occasion and will chat in the break room, that is it.
A woman I know claims to have well over 100 close friends. And I mean CLOSE FRIENDS. She is constantly going out with friends for dinner, emailing and texting constantly and spends hours on Facebook where she has well over 1000 friends. She is meeting people all the time and everyone wants a piece of her. She is constantly on the phone with people and is always turning down social invitations because she is spread too thin. She just loves everyone she meets and they love her too.
Is this you? Do you know many people like this? Could you juggle more than ten close friends with family and work obligations?
How many people in your life could you pick up the phone and call and chat with for no reason at all without feeling uncomfortable?
The parts in bold sound like me but sort of opposite. Though I get along with plenty of people, it's a MISSION sometimes for me to get anyone to hangout and hardly anyone contacts me to hangout sometimes
To me, if you feel really close and comfortable with someone you want to communicate with them all the time. So I don't understand people that say they have close friends who they only talk to a few times a year. Why would you talk to them so little if you felt so close to them?
* Don't tell me you are busy because people spend time doing things that they really want to do. And if you really felt all that close to the person you would find the time to talk more often!
It's quality over quantity.
I have a few close friends I don't see or talk to often. They don't live geographically close to me either. However, we have a deep friendship, have meaningful and lengthy conversations when we do speak or see each other. The trivialities of everyday life aren't necessary to share with these friends, I don't need to go to dinner and a movie with them to consider them close.
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