This isn’t to say we aren’t friends, but beyond a birthday message and serendipitous encounter in our hometown, we don’t speak.
I’m clinging onto my early twenties, and while my primary school best mate’s surname is the password to one of my Government portal logins, we don’t speak much. Maintaining a friendship across a lifetime is near impossible. We go through life with more friends than romantic partners, but often focus on them more than our mates. People don’t talk about navigating friendships enough, men or otherwise.