Is your BFF worth the title? 19 signs you’ve truly found your real Best Friends Forever

There are friendships that confuse us. On the surface, we can hang out with someone and have a great time, but still question their friendship. If you’re feeling this way about a person in your life, watch out for the following signs.

1. All of your posts on social networks are guaranteed a comment, like, favourite, or some type of acknowledgment from your friend. It may sound stupid, but in this day and age, you can’t leave a pal’s post response-less – not even their 10th selfie of the day.

2. You feel very comfortable enough at their place or whenever you’re together.

3. Much like with family members, you can go extended stretches of weeks or months without talking and hanging out consistently, yet there’s no doubts about your relationship. Schedules get busy, circumstances arise, but your friendship remains fully intact.

4. They are not constantly reminding you of any little favour they’ve done for you in the past.

5. They don’t make you feel like a horrible person for passing on invitations because you have to do things important to your education, career or the betterment of yourself in general. A friend who legitimately bashes you for choosing work over play is so unfair.

6. If someone slings your name through the mud, they take offense, interrupt and kill any bashing immediately – and you’ll do the exact same for them.

7. They are sincerely happy to see you have any type of success.

8. If you’re being naughty, they’ll make you aware of it to your face and want you to change.

9. You don’t constantly find yourself scolding them for putting unflattering photos of you online, because they know better than to post an eyes closed, unprepared, bad candid snapshot of you.

10. When a friend knows painful information (e.g. your crush hates the way your face looks), they’ll tell you. Maybe slightly modified to soften the blow, but they won’t leave you in the dark with false hopes, or headed down a disastrous path.

11. Your interaction naturally begins and ends with casual insults the majority of the time.

12. Even when involved in relationships, they don’t fall off the grid or blow your friendship off entirely.

13. When you stop to tie your shoe, they actually wait for you to finish as opposed to leaving you in the dust. Or they keep walking and openly vocalise and laugh at the fact that you’re being left behind.

14. Rarely do you discover anything about what’s going on with them on social networks. You don’t need Facebook to tell you it’s their birthday, or Instagram to see who they were with and where they went yesterday.

15. They don’t let you do anything stupid.

16. You’ve borrowed each other’s stuff that normal acquaintances probably wouldn’t share.

17. During the lowest of lows, they don’t give up on you even if you’ve given up on yourself.

18. There are silences, but they don’t feel the least bit uncomfortable or awkward. If you can sit down and shut up with a person, never feeling obligated to fill that hushed void, you’ve got a special connection.

19. Your instinct just confirms to you. Always listen to yourself, because your instincts about a relationship are usually right.