From Besties to Frenemies: The Truth About Outgrowing Your Childhood Friends

“Some people are in your life for a season. Some people are in your life for a reason.” This saying speaks a truth that we’ve all experienced: the challenge of preserving friendships for the long term, not just for a situational duration. That seems easier said than done. You’d think with all of the ways to connect, like, and follow people from our present and past that besties would never have to become frenemies and schoolmates and the people we grew up with would remain close comrades: BFFs when the final “F” for forever is not infinite. You are one of many with this title. The more BFFs there are, the less value that title has for the originating friend. Perhaps it is too easy to “friend” someone, making it harder to have a real friend. Girl, you know: the kind you can call at three in the morning from your darkest tragedy or who will be there in case of an emergency. Although there is no legal social contract for friendship like there is with marriage, there is an expectation, understood from a surface level to a deep meaning: you will be there when it counts for that person...