Can you have more multiple "best" friends or just one "best" friend, and the others are really good friends?

[LovingJo]

You can only have ONE best friend

You can have multiple best friends

Other, please say below

[NathanDavis]

I do have a few good, great close friends...

the one I call my "best" friend is just because we've known each other since age 12

[Sparkie460]

Yes you can have multiple best friends. I'm sure each one has a better quality than the others

[Sparkie460]

Thanks for the mho

[Guy13]

I didn’t know the sisterhood was limited to one best. I know sisters that are that way but that’s family. Men can strain a one-one friendship so that fluctuating element requires a reliable hand full for me.

[OlderAndWiser]

You can have multiple good friends but it is an improper use of language to say you have multiple best friends.

[emmaa1]

I don't know how to label people actually, I'm sure there is a special best thing about everyone, and that I don't have to label people for it. so I have friends, and whoever is pretty close to me know damn well s/he is.

[inhua]

the word "best" should imply only one

[LiamJHayden]

I call more than one "best" but the reality is that only one of them is my heir (I have no no living family) so that tells the tale.

[Guardian45]

I had two BFFs. One man and one woman. Both dead now,

[Anonymous]

Most people have no friends. Literally. They know people who stroke their ego. A friend is extremely rare and probably harder to find than it is to make a million dollars.

[Opinion Owner]

To answer the question, yes you can only have one best friend. Duh.

[LovingJo]

Lol, such a juvenile statement!! 💯

[Opinion Owner]

No it's not juvenile at all. You don't have anyone who cares about you. That isn't reality, that's your reality you've made for yourself.

[LovingJo]

That isn't even what you said 😂
I agree with your above statement, but not your original one.

[Opinion Owner]

Just the grammar of it. "Best". There can only be one "best". People without real friends liked the word "best friend" and started calling their favorite drinking pals that. Again, to stroke their ego.

[LovingJo]

But why can they not be your "best" friends, for different reasons, it's not all for ego, it's about strengths and weaknesses, and human interactions.
They may just be as equally as important to you, as each other, because you love them all.. But they all urge different qualities that make them your best friends, in difference to "regular" friends etc...

[Opinion Owner]

The fact you have to call them "best friends" should indicate to you that it's about the ego trip. Why do you have to call them "the best". It's not logical. There can only be one "best". You can continue living a life of confusion where words have no real meaning. I won't join you.

[LovingJo]

That's fine.

[Jerre]

I have many best friends. I date them (girls), take them out for dinner, clubbing, then have sex with them.

[serious]

I think there can be only 1 best friend.

[SnowedIn]

Multiple but not many.

[Jennz6]

One BFF