I feel like I have the opposite problems with friend naming. I mean I'm so hesitant to call people my friend. Like, I'd know this girl for three years, and we talked, and one day she was just like, in short, oh yeah we are friends, when I'd very tentatively call her an acquaintance in my head. See, we need to find some middle ground - and I guess 'close friend'? I wouldn't know, I haven't had a best friend for six years, but something like that?
I get that too, not to that degree but I understand what you’re saying. I always feel weird labelling someone ‘friend’ if they haven’t called me that first which can lead to months of me being like ‘yeah this...person i know...has-’
Because I’m like what if they don’t actually feel that way about me, what if I’m overstepping or whatever (that’s just me though, your reasoning could be entirely different). But also some people bring the friend word out quick or they’re just so friendly it feels natural to settle into the word friend fast. Also sometimes i just take what i can get when no one’s wanting to talk to me sldhflsdf.
With my issues with making friends I don’t tend to end up with many friends at one time so the one or two friends I do manage to have just get labelled as best friends in my head because they’re sticking around and seem to like me somewhat. Or if I do have a little group whoever I talk to most is just...the best friend. It doesn’t take much sdfsfd.
Close friend is nice, I have so many weird relationships with my current friends that close is a nice word to describe the good ones. Best friend might be a bit bold with the lifespan of most of my friendships sdfhsdf perhaps I should wait a little more.
