"You need to always be in touch with friends to stay friends." Agree or disagree?

[Still-alive]

There's been a few times where someone tells me that i need to constantly stay in touch with someone to truly consider them a friend. i don't think i agree with that and instead feel its more meaningful when it's not always constant but once in awhile we catch up.

How do you feel about this?

Strongly agree you should always be in touch with friends to stay their friend, anything less than that and they are just merely acquaintances

Agree

Disagree

Strongly disagree you can still be considered friends even if you don't stay in contact with them much but once in awhile

I have a different opinion on this

[fishcake_buttie]

Me and my best friend don't talk for months sometimes but we know we can rely on each other when it counts... Friends are people who are there when it counts, everyone else are just buddies... As in a stoner has stoner buddies, socialites have their drinker buddies... And so on but it's those that are there when times are shit that count.

[WonderingManII]

I think it is important to nurture your friendships. But if the friendship makes you feel like you must nurture it constantly, or else you lose your friend, then it can't be a very good friendship.

[Still-alive]

pretty much my attitude about it

[Zionne]

I disagree, real friendship doesn’t require constant contact. Some people can go weeks or months without talking and pick up right where they left off, and that’s just as genuine as talking every day. The quality of the connection matters way more than the frequency.

[fishcake_buttie]

It's the love between each other, that's where the quality is. We don't tell each other enough because we feel like dorks just saying it.

[WhitneySnow]

That’s a good question. I have friends I haven’t talked to in years and I still miss them. I also have friends I talk to every day and they’re just as good friends. So I don't know.

[Still-alive]

So you still think of those friends you haven't talked to in years as 'friends?' were you to get back in touch you think they would be cool?

[WhitneySnow]

One friend really, and I think she’d be cool with it. I think she misses me as much as I miss her. It’s just difficult.

[EzraIsShy76028]

I can understand the sentiment to an extent but if me and a person haven't talked in more than a year then it becomes harder to refer to them as "friend." Lol.

[DrPepper12]

I've picked up convos from years ago like it was 5 minutes ago

[RedInnocent69]

Strongly disagree. The best friends are those that you can pick up with years later like nothing‘s happened