Your best friend - why are they your best friend? What is it that they are doing that you feel like at home with them?

Definitely my wife. She likes to remind me though that I shouldn't just rely on her, and should socialize more. When one's spouse dies, men tend to die quite quickly after their wife dies, because men aren't good at making new friends or keeping up with existing ones over time. Women tend to be much better at both of those. Kind of macabre, but she's not wrong.

My wife is my best friend - we do almost everything together and she knows me better than anyone else.

I had some friends call me their best friend, but I never really felt the same. I love my friends, but I always felt I couldn't be 100% me around them. Until I met this guy, and we instantly clicked. Today, I can say that he's my best friend, because I feel like not only he understands me, but I feel safe and comfortable enough to actually be myself around him.

I feel like they get me and they make me feel like a regular person, they're cool I'm glad I met them. I wish I could make them feel the same.

Known him for a long time and then we had mushrooms together and our souls spoke to each other. Now he lives literally in the opposite side of the world but we never felt apart even once.
You hear me Bero? You're my best mate man

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comment.c:5:16: error: ‘best_friend’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    5 |         printf(best_friend.name);
      |                ^~~~~~~~~~~
comment.c:5:16: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in

Wait, you guys have friends?

Know him since primary school and he doesn't take much, so I do the talking for both of us, plus it means he hasn't got around to telling me to bugger off and leave him alone.

It's hard to pick who exactly is my best friend, there's a couple strong contenders.

The first guy I've known him since Pre-K, he lived within walking distance of my house growing up, we forget to talk to each other for months, occasionally years at a time, then just pick up right where we left off every time.

Second option is my go-to stupid adventure partner. We can always hit each other up when we need a partner for whatever cockamamie idea we've gotten into our head.

There's the guy I know will come over to help with any project I need an extra set of hands for or tools I don't own.

There's of course my wife. Words don't really do her justice so I won't even try.

Frontrunner is probably my dog though.

I met my best friend when we were in our late 20s. We were assigned as roommates while teaching English in Thailand. I'm more introverted and she's more extroverted, so our early friendship was her finding fun things to do and me tagging along. We have different outlooks at times, but similar values, which is good because we can help balance each other out.

As for what has made our friendship so strong, it's largely because of rough times we've gone through together. We've been there for each other in good times, bad times, and really awful times. She is family. Fortunately, our daughters are also best friends now! And our husbands get along okay, too.

They never judged my different mental range in a world where others couldn't bear to tell me why they even deemed it wrongful. They are my biggest link to the moment.

Always there for me, always on time, and we trust each other.