I have no friends from childhood, but I moved around a lot when I was a kid, oversea's and over my own country. There was no email or facebook back then to make life easier to keep in touch! But I can't say I have ever been betrayed or abandoned. People have moved on sure, as have I, but I don't have a problem with that. It's natural.

I have found that with my oldest friends from my late teenage years, we hardly keep in touch these last few years - they all have families, whereas I didn't have children. So we have little in common anymore, but if we do catch up (although rare) its with warmth and like we've never been apart. But this is natural, we move along in life meeting different people, making friends as we go along. We also lose friends as we go along too.

I appreciate every single one of my friendships over the years, even the ones that perhaps I have ended up avoiding in the end as not healthy, because I have so many wonderful memories of the fun we got up to.