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

How did you deal with losing your best friend? Why did you lose your best friend? How do you handle losing a best friend?
Losing them, not in a deathly way, but just losing the friendship to a change in lifestyle, or just drifting apart. How do you cope with losing your only friend? Have you ever been dumped by a best friend?
I'm curious as to how other redditors have dealt with losing their best buddy. How did you feel? Did you wonder/think/know if it was your fault or not? How did you make friends after the fact? Share your stories, let it out! Have you ever lost your best friend (who was a guy) because he had feelings for you?
He had strong feelings but you did not feel the same and he eventually had to separate himself from you (flat out told you he could not be in your life anymore). How did you act afterwords? Did you understand where he was coming from? Would you respect his need for space or would you try and regain the friendship (still just as friends)? Have you ever lost your best friend for any reason? I lost contact with my best friend due to going to jail and owing him money, I owe it all to a drug addiction...But I'm clean now and hit my 9 months today, I sent him a text saying his name, and he asked who's this, and I said my name and he never text me back. I feel like shit, has anyone ever lost their best friend who was like a brother to them?
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Roadsterrider · 56-60, M Best Comment
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.