Growing Apart

[lookashiny]

Did anyone else have a best friend as a kid that they ended up growing apart from?

I was best friends with a girl who lived across the street from me from when I was just an infant through middle school. Then we went in different directions, and we weren't friends anymore. I had other friends, who I had more in common with, but it still kind of sucked.

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[xans]

I moved around a lot. New school every two or three years, shifting back and forth between New Zealand and the U.S. a couple times. In the days before Internet and social media, that was a killer for most my friendships. Hell, even with FB, many of those later high school friendships, we haven't spoken in ages, just occasionally 'like' each other's posts. There's only one friend from childhood that I've maintained a friendship with for over 20 years now, despite moves, because we learned how to go months without talking without feeling guilty that we lead fairly separate lives.

[lookashiny]

The only friend I've maintained since I was a kid is the same as yours. We talk occasionally online and see each other a few times a year and that's enough for us.