Do you require reciprocity in your friendships?

[Mattie]

When you are truly friends, there is a bond that isn't broken by distance or infrequent contact.

[prospectheightsresident]

I love my friends. Most of my close friends and I communicate via GroupMe phone texts/Facebook. When we're all in the same city, we all try to get together. But I don't need to hear from them every day (or even every week). And I'd be fine going a while without hearing from them. I've never been one to reach out aggressively (I think I get it from my mother . . . my father, on the other hand, talks to his friends non-stop).

[prospectheightsresident]

Originally Posted by Mattie

When you are truly friends, there is a bond that isn't broken by distance or infrequent contact.

Agreed, 100%. I can go for a while without talking to my good friends (and I live nearly 5,000 miles away from friends and family now). But, when we do talk and get together, its as if we never "left."

[LawrencevilleRocks]

Originally Posted by JerZ

Yes.

I mean I don't keep tabs but if the person NEVER initiates? She isn't interested. Why keep dragging her out for coffee or whatever? Introverted or not, no, if a person literally never calls me first or does the inviting out, I don't keep shoving myself at her. Obviously she has better things to do.

I agree, JerZ.