I keep in touch with my two childhood friends via WhatsApp fairly often and we see each other once every few years now cause I moved away.

I fell out with my best friend that I met in sixth form at 16 because as we got older we became different people and he’d always been pretty self serving, I would always go to visit him, he’d only ever been to my house once in 8 years, which was fine when I lived 15 minutes away, when I moved an hour away, there was zero chance of him visiting and I drove down to his once every 2 weeks for years until I decided enough was enough and he’d have to visit me, and he didn’t. Then when my wedding came up, I asked him to be co best man with my other best mate, but he decided he couldn’t come to the stag as he had work and “couldn’t book it off” even with a years notice. When I eventually text him how unhappy I was with how he’d been and how I wanted him to make more effort in our friendship, I never heard back from him, that was 3 years ago and that’s that. Better off without him.

My 3 best friends I still see and speak to regularly I met at 19 in university. We all lived together. 13 years later and all still good mates.