Why is your best friend...

[Jo]

your best friend(other than your dh)? What makes you connect?

[SabrinaJL]

I don't really know how to answer this. She has been my best friend since we were 3. We don't have a whole lot in common anymore, but we are still best friends. She's family.

[Erika]

I've known my best friend since we were about 11. We have the same quirky sense of humour. Plus we are both in the arts (she is an actor and I'm a musician) and into a lot of the same types of films and music.

[Kristi]

Well I can't really say. LOL We have known each other since HS (her freshmen and my sophmore year). Some of the things she does drive me crazy. But she has always been there to listen to me, she has been there for me during every rough time I have had in the last 9 yrs, she knows me like no one else does. We have alot in common we always have and more as we grow. Like now we both have kids, we both have kids young, (we were actually both pregnant with our firsts at the same time) and I can talk to her about anything there is nothign I don't feel comfortable talking to her about

As for the other one. Hmm. Again I can't say I know. LOL We have a lot less in common. She is loud and outgoing where I am shy and reserved. She is a few yrs younger than me and some times you can tell IYKWIM, But I needed someone when we were living in Italy far from home. She was my family while we were there. She was there for me when I needed her, ready and willing to do anything she could to help us out etc.

[Christine]

The people that I consider best friends are so because we share an outlook on life in general. All of us have made different decisions that have changed the little things we have in common, but the big stuff has stayed the same. Things like what values we hold dear and what we want to instill in our children, what kind of marriage we desire, etc.

[Lori]

I met my best friend in grad school, and I think we became friends because we were both very much put off by a lot of the pretentions in the environment (where it seemed like everybody was constantly judging everybody else about everything, from what books they read to where they bought groceries to what their parents did for a living), and felt comfortable hanging out with each other because neither of us were very interested in that.

But, like I said on the other thread, I'm very guarded, and I think we only became very close friends because she is the opposite. She is extremely open and just puts herself right out there, and that made it a lot easier for me to do the same. There were a couple of very hard times I went through in grad school, and she was there for me through both of them, and that really cemented our friendship.

[Shana]

I don't know, anymore. My best friend seems to have gone off of the deep end. She and her husband got divorced, just like Mike and I did. But she has gone the complete opposite direction I have, and her children just do not seem to be a priority to her. I find this beyond sad and we don't seem to have a whole lot in common any longer:sigh

It's this reason that I call Brian my best friend, be he male or female. He just flat out rocks :)