Friends

[JAMESCORK]

17,000 posts on this ? your the sad one my friend very very sad indeed

It works for me buddy.... Mwuaaah...

[Kaz]

I think you probably can. My first time really helped my confidence and anxiety and I feel I am in process of really changing my life now, thanks to that one person who has changed my life for the better.

[Dr. Ivory]

I knew I guy I worked for for a couple of years. I moved on to another job, but still in the same sector. We went for lunch on a regular basis. We talked and laughed about everything, family work politics blah blah. This went on on a regular basis for the best part of a decade. Best of friends ?

No - the day he retired he went off to play golf. I have never seen him since. Nor did I expect to. We were work colleagues, friendly, but not friends.

In all aspects of our commercial life, we engage with some people in a business like fashion and some in a friendly fashion. None of them are our friends.

Apply the same distinction here, I suggest.

[dr love]

And how are we all this fine evening .: doc

[Alyssa Jenkins]

Evening Doc doing good and you

[Theomegaman]

I knew I guy I worked for for a couple of years. I moved on to another job, but still in the same sector. We went for lunch on a regular basis. We talked and laughed about everything, family work politics blah blah. This went on on a regular basis for the best part of a decade. Best of friends ?

No - the day he retired he went off to play golf. I have never seen him since. Nor did I expect to. We were work colleagues, friendly, but not friends.

In all aspects of our commercial life, we engage with some people in a business like fashion and some in a friendly fashion. None of them are our friends.

Apply the same distinction here, I suggest.

Whenever I am asked about friends I have my reply is always " I have lots and lots of acquaintances , but very few people I would consider true friends "

My true friends I could count on one hand.

[Curvaceous Kate]

I knew I guy I worked for for a couple of years. I moved on to another job, but still in the same sector. We went for lunch on a regular basis. We talked and laughed about everything, family work politics blah blah. This went on on a regular basis for the best part of a decade. Best of friends ?

No - the day he retired he went off to play golf. I have never seen him since. Nor did I expect to. We were work colleagues, friendly, but not friends.

In all aspects of our commercial life, we engage with some people in a business like fashion and some in a friendly fashion. None of them are our friends.

Apply the same distinction here, I suggest.

Friends does not have to be forever. You are still friends.

Oxford dictionary definition of 'Friend'

noun

1A person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual or family relations: she’s a

friend of mine
we were close friends

[Retroman69]

Whenever I am asked about friends I have my reply is always " I have lots and lots of acquaintances , but very few people I would consider true friends "

My true friends I could count on one hand.

Exactly!!!!!!

[Baxter]

I have 167 close personal friends here. I am sure I can always count on them even when I run out of money.True friends.

[Dr. Ivory]

Oxford dictionary definition of 'Friend'
noun

1A person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual or family relations

As so often, a debate comes down to a difference of meanings. So we are all correct.