How would you feel if a friend never keep in touch with you? am feeling bad.

I only have one close friend and can only call a friend. she’s away and we’ve been away since we graduated. But we’ve been friends for like a decade now. We’ve known our ups and downs. But even though we seldom see each other for the past few years and talk over the phone, we know we’ll be there no matter what.

hi tess quinain sorry to hear you are feeling all alone but glad you came here to mylot as we have lots of nice shoulders to lean on and even cry on if its necessary. I try my best to keep my friendships alive as my friends are so dear to me now.My best friend thought I had gone nuts this week but I literally could not email her as tuesday morning we had the lights go off for ten minutes and it knocked me off the internet. we took two days to figure out it was the internet card on the mother board.it went completely out and my son finally got it replaced last night. I had a ton of emails backed up and oh my g discussions coming out my ears.I do hope to get all caug ht up by tomorrow.I hope maybe some of your friends see this and make some calls or drop by as its sad to be lonely.I did answer all the emails my best friend had sent me this week this morning so I feel some better about that.

Hi Tess quinain, I work some really odd hours on odd days which makes it very difficult to keep in touch with friends and them to keep in touch with me. One thing I have learned is that it is a 2-way street. My friends and family are very important and unfortunatly there is no way that I can spend as much time with them as I would like to. Ok so there was a time that I had 3 children to support and the job that I had (have) was completely opposite in hours from that of pretty much everyone in my life. They all had parties that I could not attend because I just could not afford to take time off from work. My priority was to provide for my kids. On my days off...well, they all were working. I did feel left out but rather than give in to it, I did whatever I could to keep in touch including writing letters...old school. Sometimes I just sent little notes letting them know that I was thinking of them and wished we had more time together. My best friend in the world has been my friend since we were in 8th grade. We are now 54 and made a vow to each other when we were kids that we would never ever EVER let anything interfere with our friendship. Over the years we have lost touch and thankfully one of us has always taken the incentive to keep the friendship alive and strong. Now that we are this old, we still meet at least once a week and take turns buying each other coffee. it's pretty cool. it takes two so make sure that you are doing your part.

Well, just like you, i would feel bad. I might think that they forgot me or doesn't want to communicate with me anymore. But on the second thought, we also have to consider yes, their probably having a hectic schedule, most of working moms or dads. Of course, that would be their priorities. Probably the only thing we can do if such cases arise, we can be the one to make moves by simply sending them text messages or even forwarded quotes for the day or the likes. In such way, they would be reminded that heyy, there still someone misses them. Don't feel so lonely, if some of your friends seems to forget you, try some ways to find another friends. No one is alone, you still have your families who won't forget you in any way. Happy Mylotting. Cheers

It depends. If my friends are really busy and they have no time to contact me, then I understand, just as long as they don't completely ignore me and give some time for me when they can. However, I have some friends who are clearly not busy but wouldn't contact me at least once! Seriously, it's like we've never even became friends :| If it's like that I'd definitely feel hurt :(

I would definitely feel unappreciated if they wont keep in touch. I sent my colleague an sms, and she did not even answer! I sent her about 4 sms and after 5 months? no answer at all. So I guess, she does not want to keep in touch anymore. I do not want to be the one initiating the communication always.

When close friends move away, the tendency is for them to drift away from each other. They are building a new life in a new location, and that takes most of their energy. Of course the flip side still holds true. Are you keeping in touch with them? Don't be proud, just reach out and find them.

Well, it depends on what kind of friends they are. In my opinion, there are only a few true and good friends we can have in our lives. And those friends would never forget me and keep in touch with me sometimes. I do the same to them. But, most of our so called friends are not true and good ones, I have to say. We are not important to them and so are they. In such a situation, I will not care whether they remember me or something. Lonely is a bad feeling.

I have lost touch with some of my friends but i know i am partly to blame. We made this vow to always keep in touch but somehow we became so busy and so caught with our separate lives that before we know it we have drifted so far apart.

Well if my friends are not keeping touch then I would only think that they are too busy to do so. I myself is also so busy with many things that sometimes I could not get in touch with them regularly. I think for busy people like me, friendship does not mean regular communication but rather being ready to spare some time with them during trying times and being able to extend helping hand whenever they need so.

Oh how I know this feeling well. I lost my job almost 10 months ago, I have never been unemployed in my life. I had what I thought were great friends. Not a single one has bothered to send an email, text and or call to just to say hi. It really hurts, I suppose they were not friends. Do they even wonder if I am breathing or not. I can reach out to them but apparently they are all so happy in their lives that I can see their posts on face book and well I suppose it would be too much to find out if I am still breathing. So I know this feeling oh so well. My prayers and faith get me through each day, it does wonders.

aw dont be sad^^ sure is normal that you want them to remember you and ask how you are feeling and ask you to hang out with them^^ thats normal you feel that way^^ we must not ignore a friend^^ we must give attention and care for how he is^^ anyway dont feel alone^^ if you need to talk about something you can talk with me also^^ also you can message them and ask how are they and if can meet you soon^^ say that you miss them^^ dont wait them to message you^^ just message them and see^^ maybe they are so busy that didnt even notice they are hurting you^^

I feel disappointed, especially if I learned that they all got together without inviting me at all. A friend whom I consider my closest never kept in touch with me unless i send her a message first. She was able to make other friends and had completely forgotten about me. I just moved on and made some new friends too. When she had her child i went to visit her, but when I had mine, she didn't even sent a message. :(

I have a friend in high school, The other ask, if we are twin because we are look a like,,,After High school, we no communication at all,until I heard the news that she got married, I was hurt she forgot to invite me in her important things in her life, until I knew she have other best friend than me..

I sometimes feel like I'm the only one putting in the effort to keep in touch with friends. I understand that they have their own lives and people get busy but I feel like that should be able to drop a quick email or phone call once in awhile to keep in touch. I would be happy with a few quick sentences at least then I would know that they were thinking of me and keeping in touch was important to them to. My best friend lives 8 hours away. She left after we graduated and we've kept in touch since then but not as often as I would have liked. Most the time I feel like if I wouldn't contact her first that I might not hear from her ever again. I think it's important to keep in contact with friends if even for just a quick note.

It does happen to me a lot specially to those college friends i have and we've been exchanging news from the moment we had our first job, to getting married and starting a family. But since I got married and settled abroad, all those "so called" friends changed their attitude. I regularly send them hellos and messages online, be it email or social network sites, but they just don't know the meaning of replying back or even bothering to write back so I let them be. If in time we bumped into each other, i will just put a big smile on my face and will not get affected if I have been ignored for so long. Besides, I don't depend on them. I don't treat them as enemies too. I just simply let them go and for me it would not be a great loss because I'm still complete as a person and I can still have more friends in the future. I felt sad at first because we've been good friends for so many years, but I just accepted the fact that people do change specially if their status in life changes.

I try not to ignore my friends but I have moved far away from many of my friedns but I try to keep in touch either online or through the phone. I do have quite a hectic schedule, I have 2 toddlers so things can get quite busy at times, and I also need to make time for my husband too so that relationship doesnt suffer. Im sure they will all remember you, why dont you try talking tot hem first?

I try to be in touch with all my friends to the possible extend but if some of my friend is not ready to continue with the friendship, that is fine. I cannot chase someone to maintain friendship, it's not a single side emotion that works, both should have a feeling of friendship and I feel lucky to have such friends.

I'm now living far away from all my friend and having new friends around where I'm currently staying at. all my friends are married and have kids, therefore they have more responsibilities to their family and kids and less to their friends which is very understandable. I myself is about to get married and I'm very busy getting everything stable and ready (well at least for the beginning) for my new coming future. So I add all my friends on Facebook, give a comment on their kids pictures and so on. I'm not really worried if I can't keep in touch with them, whether I do or not, they are always my friends (in my heart and my life) and I will always be their friend.