general Is it true that people tend to view their childhood friends as siblings?

[AlicornSpell 146]

I heard that people tend to view their childhood friends as siblings, and that's one of the reasons why not many people fall in love with their childhood friends. Is that true?

[CheeryFox 23,820]

Not too sure about the love part...but viewing childhood friends as siblings is a truthful statement. 

[TBD 17,254]

Aside from love, I do have a few childhood friends that I see them as cousins. I'd literally forget that we're not related. 

[Steel Accord 6,660]

My best friend from first grade is as close to my family and I as one of my own brothers.

[AlicornSpell 146]

3 hours ago, TBD said:

Aside from love, I do have a few childhood friends that I see them as cousins. I'd literally forget that we're not related. 

Well about the love part. People who fall in love with their childhood friends and get into a romantic relationship with them are definitely in the minority when compared to couples who known and been friends with each other since they were teenagers or adults. 

[Here No Longer 5,276]

I wouldn't know because I really didn't have too many of them...

[LittleMistakes 100]

I never really managed to get know people long enough to consider them siblings unless they've had a massive positive impact on my life.

[Midnight Solace 5,132]

I never had childhood friends. I was that one dude who no one cared about. Hopefully you guys had friends.

[碇 シンジン 27,431]

Depends if they are more like buddies that were seeing from time to time or basically been together all times for the first couple decades of their life 

[Elyrse 168]

Despite being viewed as a mentally disturbed person or a homo. There was this girl that always had my back. Even though we live 5 hours apart now, she still feels like a sister to me 

[Dreambiscuit 9,576]

I've never considered my childhood friends to be like siblings. I have a brother and sister and they're nothing like any of the friends I've had.

I don't see why anyone would have any difficulty falling in love with childhood friends, after all there's a lot of personal history there, and in my opinion, that's ripe for budding romance. 

[Narcissus 354]

My childhood friends were never like siblings. And developing a romantic attachment as time and maturity developed seems pretty natural. Friends are friends, and whether or not it becomes romantic is subject to experience and personal taste, not upbringing.