[ SECRET POST #4701 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4701 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Whoa there... OP was... pretty blunt. But "you're going to be with them forever" isn't really an accurate description of how most friendships work. Chances are you'll have an evolving circle of friends, some who stick around and some who don't. Most peoples' circle of friends who are as close as siblings is very, very small. And unfortunately, that's not a guarantee that they'll be around forever, either. Life has a way of doing that to people.

It's not so much that people are disposable, it's that people change. A lot. Every major life change alters you, and sometimes the friendships you had when you were your previous self won't work the same way after that change.

[(Anonymous)]

The concept of "found family" is different from "close friends", though. It's literally a replacement or expansion for blood family, which generally doesn't fluctuate like the friendships you're describing. Even a friend who is as close as a sibling isn't generally lumped in with "found family".

[(Anonymous)]

I considered my best friend from my pre-teen and teenage years to be like my sister. We were super close. Life took us in different directions, geographically as well as metaphorically, and we began drifting apart even without any significant SOs to dump the other over. No one was disposable in this situation. It was just too hard to maintain a long-distance friendship when we no longer had much in common. We haven't talked on the phone or even communicated online since maybe 2003 or 2004, and since we drifted apart pre-Facebook, we don't even have that passive keeping tabs on each other thing going on. I have no idea where she is now.