Talking about Friends

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Having lifelong friends is a great conversational topic. Many questions are related towards how long they have been friends.

Here are some questions you can ask when talking about friends.

"How long have you guys been friends?"
"How long have you known each other?"
"Did you grow up together?"

"Did you go to school together?"
"So how did you meet?"

Here are some example you can use to respond to these types of questions.

"We've been friends since elementary school."
"I think it's been like 20 years."
"We grew up together. Our parents lived pretty close so we were basically neighbors."

"We went to the same school since the 5th grade."
"We met in middle school and started going to the same school from the 7th grade."
"We started going to the same school at the University of Washington."

"We met at church when we were young. We have been close friends since."
"We met in high school in our English class."