[huong]

I want to see if I'm normal or not. I have 3 close friends and I speak to them on the phone about once a week. If one of them is going through a hard time, then I speak to them daily. I go out with them about once or twice a month. We all live in the same city. As for acquaintances, I only speak to them on the phone when they are inviting me to an event, but we normally don't talk about what's going on in our lives. I have a huge number of acquaintances which I see every few months. I find that I spend most of my time going out with coworkers.

And some background about me: I'm 22, just finished college and work full time. 1 of my friends is in law school while the other 2 are working full time. All 3 of the are in long term relationships while I am single.

So, this brings me to the question, how often do you see your friends? And also, give a little bit of info about where you are in life (student, single, married with kids, etc.) I just thought it would be interesting to compare.

[chpwhy]

I am 24, working full time, happily attached. I have a group of close friends ard 5. We meet up every 2 months. I koe its sad but Its almost impossible to gather all 5 tog as most have got work or family commitments. Im the only lady in my office so i do not go out with my colleagues. So most the time im with TBF or family..

[pinkybear]

im 21 undergrad, no job, in a relationship. i have three close girlfriends as well. we try to see each other at least every week since we go to the same university. lately its become very difficult to hang out because our schedules are very different. one of the three moved to NY to be with her bf. the 2 left are both working and have bf's as well. we do talk/text each other throughout the day.
i get sad when i think about us graduating because im sure hanging out then would be a lot harder.

[shopaholic81]

i'm 26, in a relationship, working full-time and in grad school. i don't get to see my friends all too often. i hang out mostly w/ my bf on the weekends. during the week, i go out to lunch or drinks after work w/ my work buddies. my other friends i see once every month or two. we do talk/email at least once a week though. i don't spend much time on the phone at all. when i'm done w/ grad school, i hope to be able to spend more time w/ my friends during the week. i spend most weeknights studying or just running errands.

[IntlSet]

I'm 23, in a relationship, and moved last year halfway across the country from all my friends. So no, I don't really see or go out with them, but we do email regularly and talk every other week or so (I'm not a big phone person!).

[wordpast]

26, work full time (self employed so if gives me a bit of freedom), I'm in a long term relationship. I have about 5 best friends. A couple of them I talk to several times a day .They know they can call me anytime so they normally do. The others at least twice a week. I'm a homebody so I don't go out to often (even though they always try to get me to!) We hang out maybe once a month.

I don't know what I would do if I didn't talk to my friends everyday. We've always been like that though. I'm a big phone person.

[Sweetpea83]

I'm 24, I email my close friends every other day...see them once every other week...work is so hectic at times that when I get off work I just want to relax or go working out to relieve stress...and on weekends I usually hangout with my SO (whom I live with) and my family...so it all depends.

[EmilyAnne_SD]

I'm 30, email my close friends at least once a week, work full-time, married, and have a 2-year old. I see my closest friends at least every 2 months or so. We're all in different life situations right now and are very busy with work and family life. It was different when we graduated from college because we weren't all married yet or had kids. But now that we've all been domesticated (I say that in jest), we aren't able to spend as much time with each other as we'd like. However, when we do meet up, we just pick up where we left off.

[missjeni]

i'm 20, school full time, work part time, 4yr relationship w bf. i have 3 close friends 1 girl i see maybe 2-3 times a week. she's single with full time job. another girl has a bf, part time job, full time school and i see her maybe once or twice a week or sometimes once every 2 weeks. and my best friend she lives in another city for school but she comes back very often. i see her once every 2-3 weeks maybe. i talk to them all daily or a couple times a week through facebook

[Yorelica]

Great thread.
I see some of my close girlfriends once every 1-3 weeks.
Other close girlfriends who are busy with school I see them once a month (at most).
Since I am busy working fulltime 6 days a week; finished school this year; I really have no time to go out with my friends other than on Saturday nights.

[Danica]

I speak to my close friends every day. I also live in a different country than them. I'm married, and we almost never go out drinking or dancing, etc. If we were in the same city though, I would! I'm no longer really into all that, but well we'd be hanging out and getting starbucks or whatever all the time if it were possible. But everybody's different, so you shouldn't try to compare yourself to other people, this would be normal for me but not for others.

[amanda]

i'm 22, a full-time college student, part-time SA, and i see my best friend every day because i live with her. when she goes home to visit her parents, we talk on the phone every couple of days. i usually go out with friends several times a week, and i'm very close friends with many of the people that i work with. my situation is a tad unique, though, because i live in a college town - it's hyper social.

[mellecyn]

I´m 29, newly single. I email everyday my best friend (who lives back in France) and keep in touch every 2-3 months with my other friends and more often with the ones who have a Facebook profile (Am I allowed not being a student ??lol).
Some of my colleagues are also my friends so that´s easy, we see each other at lunch time, or call everyday my 2 closest and meet up for a drink/food once or twice a week.

[ilzabet]

i'm 24, married, no kids and work part time. i have six girlfriends that i consider my main support system. i have to preface this with i HATE the phone and only two of them are friends with each other.

one of them is in law school and uber busy. i talk with her on the phone maybe once every 2-3 months but we text/email/myspace comment probably once a week. because of ridiculous life circumstances i haven't seen her since march. she will be home for christmas next week and excited doesn't even begin to cover it.

another is a flight attendant. i never talk to her on the phone or email, but we see each other about once a month when she is in town.

the third is a mother of three kids under 5 who has gone through major life changes this year (ended a 6 year relationship, moved to a new city, working for the first time in 6 years, etc etc). i talk to her through email/myspace/text every day to every other day. we see each other at least once a month.

number 5 is my newest friend. she is the only one that lives in my town. we never talk on the phone except to make plans but we hang out 2ish times a week. being friends with her also opened up a whole new social circle for me, so i have a few other less close but still good friends that i also hang out with about once a week.

the last is a little strange in that we met online when we were 13.....she's one of my oldest, best friends but we've never met in person. she lives on the east coast, i live on the west. we talk on aol once or twice a week and on the phone probably twice a month (we'd talk more if the time difference wasn't so big). we used to email 4 times a week or so, but i've been a slacker in that area lately.

i guess my point is that every friendship and every circumstance is unique. whatever makes you still feel "close" to your friends is normal.

ETA: wow. that was really long. if you read through this whole thing good for you.

[QueenOfDa702]

Well, I have too many acquaintances, and am actually cutting off a lot of the people that pretty much just drive me crazy lol. I have one particular friend I talk to everyday, but we never go out because she lives 1,000 miles away! I have 2 close girlfriends here, but we are all busy, so we get together maybe once a month. I have a few friends online too, but we only talk once in a while. Other than that, my SO and I have one very close mutual friend that we go out with the most. We have actually spent 3 nights this week with him & his, umm...girl..friend(s) lol. Its pretty hard to find friends here in Vegas.