Can you form lasting friendships?

[Anonymous]

Generally, I can't accumulate friends. In my current environment, I can make friends for a certain period, but then when distance or coldness enters the friendship, it ends. Then I feel lonely again, and I try to find new friends. This has become a loop.

How can I form solid, lasting connections?

[Nikki1989]

Yes, too easy. I am still in regular contact with people I have known for 20+ years.

[Babygirl_S]

I block when they ghost. They ghost when the gains stop or when I move away.

[NathanDavis]

technically... I've had a friend for 32 years but these are childhood/neighbor friends with whom I am in very friendly and very good terms, I do see them occasionally though so I would not say that are my best and close friends

most of my best and close friends and that still meet regularly and often though, I've meet them during middle-school, high-school and college years... and I like to think that it was "natural" to develop a close and strong bond because well, we spent a lot of time together during the days, almost every single day

there were many factors involved of course, and it might go different for everyone else so I can't really tell "how you could do it" but one question you could ask yourself is... do you really want to do it? do you want to have such bonds with people?

if the answer is yes, then you should really do what it takes and it would come more naturally to you, and if it doesn't maybe you really don't want to do what it takes nor deal with what implies... friendships are not all just ups and good times, there's also struggle and effort, which more than time, can take a lot of energy

and not everyone is actually willing to do this... so they just don't develop them "more properly" over that time

[WonderingManII]

No I can't.