Who knows you better: Close friends or family?

[HawkPerception]

Close friends

Family

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3 mo

Pretty surprised most people in the polls said family

[Simslover92]

Close friends know me better because once you leave your family home and step into the real world and make friends and connections with them, they end up knowing you better than family a lot of times especially after years of knowing them.

My two best friends I've known over 13 years. We've built up so much kinship and practically have a family bond with one another. I often get how I look just like my bestie because we've hung out with each other for so long. We often get mistaken for sisters or cousins. Although she's tall and I'm short. It's weird because I don't think we look that much alike but people think we do.

But the point is I've found a much deeper connection with my close friends than my family over time. I love my family but it's not the same connection I have with my friends.

[DishLady]

Close friends. Family used to be closer, but those most trusted have passed on. The rest of the posse just get "major highlights" while trusted friends are privy to the every day.

[NathanDavis]

definitely my best friends...

although I am close with family and I do get along with them very well... we really didn't have that kind of very open communication with one another, we didn't grow up like that

but I did have with my best friends, the closest ones... we grew up into that

[HawkPerception]

Same here man. Exactly that.

[Anonymous]

I'd say it's all the same

And there are no secrets, except for of course duh passwords etc I mean 🤣 people should be cautious with their private info for security duh duh duh no advice

[Rei13]

I’d say my immediate family knows me better, my fiancé probably the best since we’re constantly around each other. Otherwise my siblings know both my interests and personality extremely well (also things I would hide from parents and share with friends) where my parents do too to an extent. My close friends do know a lot but it’s not the same. My best friend is convinced I’m an extrovert when I’m not, for example, where I think everyone else knows better 😅

[MontBlanc]

It depends , but usually close friends know the side of you you show to the world, while family knows the side shaped by your past and upbringing.

Some people feel friends understand their choices and personality better, while family understands their history and roots. Often, it’s a mix of both.

[7Phoenix7]

My closest friends know me better than family. I’m close with family but my closest friends know the most.

[RandomGirl42]

My sisters are my close friends , so, yeah, they know me better than I know me. 😊

[NessaEssa]

My best friend that's who knows all my secrets, that I definitely can't tell family. Family always talks best friends know how to keep a secret.

[DarKnight36]

I don't really like telling everything about myself.

It's enough for me that my close friends know me as a good person.

[tfan1]

Neither. I don’t disclose everything about me to anyone

[queenofcardio]

My best friend.

[exitseven]

close friends.

[White_Stain00]

My best friend.

[douride2]

My sister tells me I am like an open book.