If not, do you wish they did?
I have been trying to stir up a bromance for my husband for a decade 
. He has long distance friends and work/ happy hour friends but not anybody he could hang out with on a regular basis.
Seriously, I feel like it would be helpful to both of us if he had someone else to share his hobbies with.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21628 posts
Yep. He has a best friend. They've been best friends since they were four.
persimmon / 1178 posts
@Leialou: does he live close enough that they can hang out?
Who knows, maybe I would be jealous if he had a great friend I had to share him with, but from where I sit now I would LOVE for him to go hang out with a buddy.
Like right now.
Get out of my hair, love of my life, PLEASE,
nectarine / 2771 posts
Yup. They have been best friends since high school. We were in each other's weddings, vacation with him and his wife, have playdates with their daughter, and I "tolerate" the constant texting back and forth. He's actually here right now (his wife had a meeting and will be coming later), and I'm bored with all the fantasy football talk! So playing with the kiddies and on HB instead, haha.
blogger / nectarine / 2600 posts
My husband basically has a best friend in a co-worker. They work together and then play video games together and chat at night when they do.
He is also close to our BIL and his little brother
persimmon / 1178 posts
@yerpie110: @Mrs. Chocolate: is it ever a bad thing? I mean, do you get irritated with the time they spend with them or whatever?
Just curious.
eggplant / 11716 posts
@lizzywiz: my husband has a close group of guy friends, but we moved away 2 years ago. They are surprisingly good at keeping in touch, though--better than I am with my girl friends in our old city!
He's actually on a 4 day hiking trip with them in Colorado right now. And they have another trip all together this next May.
In our current city, he has coworker friendships and one that has also extended to a biking friendship. But I'm kinda glad he doesn't have more than that, because I feel like I need him home more often since he already works long hours and doesn't see LO as much as he'd like--so weekends are daddy/LO time.
wonderful pea / 17279 posts
Yes, he has two really good friends from college. He makes friends pretty easily and has strong guy friendships he's developed in the last a couple years that stemmed from work.
One of his best buddies and him are planning a trip to Atlanta to see Outkast's final concert together. There's another guy or two going as well. I think it's sweet what they consider male bonding.
grapefruit / 4441 posts
He really only has one close male friend. I like when they spend time together, it makes my husband happy.
nectarine / 2771 posts
@lizzywiz: Honestly, DH has a lot of bromances so it seems like he's always texting, emailing, and even talking on the phone! I don't get irritated by the physical time with any of his guys because it's not too frequent (and usually LO and I are there to hang out with the wives and other kids), but I do get irritated with the time he spends on the phone around me, and I've had to put some limits down.
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
He does have a few close friends... But he doesn't really hang out with anyone regularly. I would say his best buddy is me 
grapefruit / 4817 posts
My husband has a best friend from childhood, but they don't see each other much anymore. But he's got a ton of close friends and hangs out with the guys regularly. I think the fact that he's a big sportsman and golfer means he's doing group activities constantly. He makes friends easily because of it.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
Yep BFFs since hs. They're two peas in a pod and since we all stayed near our hometown they see each other often.
hostess / wonderful honeydew / 32460 posts
Yep. He has a bff. We see him a few times a month.
eggplant / 11824 posts
Yes, he and his female best friend have been BFF for over 25 years! She's awesome.
persimmon / 1316 posts
Yeah, we live in the same area my DH went to college so he has all his college buddies he has known for 10+ years then he is friends with all my best friends husbands.
kiwi / 656 posts
Two of them, one who he sees fortnightly who lives about 29 mins away by car. The second lives a 2 hour car journey away and DH will go stay for the weekend with him once every 3 months or so. I think it's great for our relationship for him to go stay away for a weekend 4 times a year.
blogger / nectarine / 2600 posts
@lizzywiz: No not at all. My DH is an introvert by nature so he rarely does anything outside of work and stuff with us so I think its great when he makes friends. His brothers (BIL) are much more outgoing so they can get drag him and get him to do more than I can at times. I like his co-worker and we have double dated a few times with him and his girlfriend
At one point to bond more with my husband and his friend I started to play a game with them at night. I chat with his co-worker on the chat at times too and sometimes with my husband when they both are at work
persimmon / 1177 posts
He has a couple close friends, and he became good friends with a few of my guy friends (he sees them more than I do now!).
persimmon / 1178 posts
@stargal: join the club, although it looks like we are in the minority.
Ya'll are just confirming my suspicion that a bromance for my SO would be nothing but great. Thing is, I think he is happy with the way things (he is such a homebody) but sometimes it is hard for me to fill that role. Or maybe I should say exhausting. It was easier before baby but now sometimes I am stretched too thin to want to watch youtube videos of gun tricks, ya know?
persimmon / 1313 posts
My husband has two very close best friends. One is stationed in SC and the other lives in Tallahassee which isn't too far. They've been best friends for years, one of them he's known basically his whole life. They don't talk every single day but when they do it's for a while and they hang out a couple of times a year.
coconut / 8854 posts
Yes he does, they go golfing all the time, and his friend and his wife just got a puppy, so we've been having tons of doggy play dates with them!
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