How did you lose your best friend and how did you get over them?

I have not lost any best friends except to death. I have friends that I talk to on a daily basis, and I have friends I talk to every few years, and friends I talk to after much longer periods. I have always been more of a loner and don't feel a need to have numbers of friends, I have a few close friends and we stay close even when miles and time separate us. Guys I haven't talked to in 10 or 15 years will call out of the blue and say they are passing through on a business trip can I meet them for a chat? I feel very blessed that the friends I have come up with over the years are that caliber of people.

so here’s a story:

On the 11th of August in the year of 1991, a babyboy named Kevin was born in the hospital of Roeselare.
9 days later, me myself and I joined the wonders of life.
Both our mothers were still in the hospital. Coincidence as may be, apparently my grandparents were the neighbors of Kevin’s parents. So we all got introduced to eachother.
My parents worked a lot of weekends, and so I stayed at my grandparents place quite often.
It wasn’t before long that we became absolute best pals. My love for gaming, and later, online gaming and communities, rock music all started with Kevin.
We trusted eachother with everything and he has been my best friend forever.
Until of course, teenage years approached and he got feelings for me.
I wouldn’t claim that I never had any feelings. But I told him I didn’t want to risk our lifelong friendship over a relationship.
Back in my teenage years, I was quite emotionally unstable and my first relationships didn’t last very long cause I grew tired of them (lol), so I just thought it was a bad idea.

Turns out, making that choice was the reason why we grew apart. I got a boyfriend whom I did click with, I started spending less weekends over at my grandparents place,… Later he got a girlfriend and that’s when he stopped talking to me. I assume his mother must have told her about what a close friend I was and she might have told him not to contact me anymore.

Either way, I’m still grateful for the 19 or so years of friendship that we’ve had, I still miss him to this day, consider it to be a bond I’ll never have with someone else again, but also respect him and his family too much to ‘butt in’ for the sake of friendship.

Sometimes I wonder if I just should’ve tried the relationship, but if it would have went bad, I would probably feel worse about it than I do now :-))

I had an online friend who meant a lot to me. She disappeared a little over a year ago and I don't know why or what happened. There were 2 or 3 emails within a week that sounded as if her situation had improved slightly and then nothing. I think she's still alive but I haven't been able to find a trace of her online.
There's a bottle of her favorite whiskey stuck back on a shelf. At one point it looked as if we would meet in person and I was hoping to share the rest of that bottle with her. Not much left now, but I can't bring myself to drink it. It feels like as long as there's some of it left there's still hope that one day our paths will cross again.

My mother died lot many years ago. I am still not over Her in spite of Her physical absence.

I have countable beloveds who are physically away coz of the obvious - daily grind.

Nothing changes.
Beloveds remain beloveds.

Btw, i dislike such posts and the sick notions behind posting them.
Enjoy regardless.

She passed away, I haven’t gotten over her passing